Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Resuscitative transoesophageal echocardiography performed by emergency physicians in the emergency department: insights from a 1-year period
Authors' conclusion
Our findings suggest that EPs may be able to acquire and interpret TOE images in the majority of patients during CA using a standardized four-view imaging protocol.
Study context
- Population
- Adults (≥18 years) with ongoing non-traumatic cardiac arrest (CA) treated in the emergency department (ED), Medical University of Vienna, February 2020 to February 202162 considered for transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE)
- Participants
- 99 adults
- Outcome
- Feasibility: successful probe insertion and acquisition of interpretable images
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Feasibility (successful probe insertion and interpretable images)
TOE feasible, patients
57
92%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Major findings
- Major findings observed
- 51
- Patients with major findings
- 32 (66%)
Direct change of therapy
- Findings led to direct change of therapy, patients
- 21 (37%)
Ventricular contractions without detectable pulse
- Ventricular contractions without detectable pulse, patients
- 18 (32%)
Safety
| Outcome | Values |
|---|---|
| TOE-related complications | TOE 0 events |
Original publication
Resuscitative transoesophageal echocardiography performed by emergency physicians in the emergency department: insights from a 1-year period. Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care. Published 29 November 2022. doi:10.
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