Ultrasound in the ICU for Fluid Resuscitation

We use ultrasound to fair amount in our intensive care unit and I think that with the neurotechnology with the handheld ultrasound it makes it a lot easier to use. The way that we tend to use it if we see hemodynamically unstable patients is that we'll do a quick ultrasound, usually the fellow in the attending will do it even before we've gotten a form ultrasound by cardiology as well. If there's any obvious failure of the left ventricle or dilation of the right ventricle which may put you along a different diagnostic category such as right heart failure from pulmonary embolism or fat embolism. In our study that we did I think that the overall sensitivity and