How to Evaluate the Pulmonary Valve and Right Ventricular Outflow Tract in Prone Position during Invasive Mechanical Ventilation
How to Evaluate the Pulmonary Valve and Right Ventricular Outflow Tract in Prone Position during Invasive Mechanical Ventilation
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Cesar Del Castillo Gordillo Francisca Yanez Vidal Franco Appiani Florit Fernando Verdugo Thomas Arnulfo Begazo Gonzales Mario Alfaro Diaz
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Cesar Del Castillo GordilloCardiovascular Center, DIPRECA Hospital, Santiago, Chile
A B S T R A C T
In the COVID-19 pandemic, we performed a series of echocardiograms using subcostal views. After placing a patient in a prone position during invasive mechanical ventilation, the echocardiogram transducer was placed under the patient in the left subcostal position. This performance allowed us to evaluate the function of the pulmonary valve and estimate pulmonary pressure. This is a complement to the monitoring with a transthoracic echocardiogram in the prone position.
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Case ReportPublication history
Received: Thu 22, Jul 2021Accepted: Thu 05, Aug 2021
Published: Thu 19, Aug 2021
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© 2023 Cesar Del Castillo Gordillo . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.DOI: 10.31487/j.JICOA.2021.03.05