Michael J Lanspa, Siddharth P Dugar, Heather L Prigmore, Jeremy S Boyd, Jordan D Rupp, Chris J Lindsell, Todd W Rice, Nida Qadir, George W Lim, Ariel L Shiloh, Vladyslav Dieiev, Michelle N Gong, Steven W Fox, Eliotte L Hirshberg, Akram Khan, James Kornfield, Jacob H Schoeneck, Nicholas Macklin, D Clark Files, Kevin W Gibbs, Matthew E Prekker, Daniel Parsons-Moss, Mikaele Bown, Troy D Olsen, Daniel B Knox, Meghan M Cirulis, Omar Mehkri, Abhijit Duggal, Mark W Tenforde, Manish M Patel, Wesley H Self, Samuel M Brown
BACKGROUND: Cardiac function of critically ill patients with COVID-19 generally has been reported from clinically obtained data. Echocardiographic deformation imaging can identify ventricular dysfunction missed by traditional echocardiographic assessment. RESEARCH QUESTION: What is the prevalence of ventricular dysfunction and what are its implications for the natural history of critical COVID-19? STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: This is a multicenter prospective cohort of critically ill patients with COVID-19...
June 2023: CHEST Crit Care