Our residents have used US evaluation of the SVC diameter as a predictor of volume status and we have treated patients accordingly.
Jeffrey R Hanlon RN Stamp Out Sepsis -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: Sepsisgroups <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 11:51 am Subject: [Sepsis Groups] (no subject) Dear Friends, does looking at the ivc diameter for patients presenting to the ED with sepsis give a picture of the volume status ? i hope most of the EDs would have an Ultrasound machine. Dr Mohamed Ibrahim M.D,FAAEM Madurai- India Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
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