A Multi-Country Survey on the Availability of Intraoperative Use of Echocardiography for Noncardiac Surgery.
Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth
; 28(3): 135-146, 2024 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
This survey aimed to explore the availability and accessibility of echocardiography during noncardiac surgery worldwide.METHODS:
An internet-based 45-item survey was sent, followed by reminders from August 30, 2021, to August 20, 2022.RESULTS:
1189 responses were received from 62 countries. Nearly seventy-one percent of respondents had intraoperatively used transesophageal or transthoracic echocardiography (TEE and TTE, respectively) for monitoring or examination. The unavailability of echocardiography machines (30.3%), lack of trained personnel (30.2%), and absence of clinical indications (22.6%) were the top 3 reasons for not using intraoperative echocardiography in noncardiac surgery. About 61.5% of participants had access to at least one echocardiography machine. About 41% had access to at least 1 TEE probe, and 62.2% had access to at least 1 TTE probe. Seventy-four percent of centers had a procedure to request intraoperative echocardiography if needed for noncardiac cases. Intraoperative echocardiography service was immediately available in 58% of centers.CONCLUSIONS:
Echocardiography machines and skilled echocardiographers are still unavailable at many centers worldwide. National societies should aim to train a critical mass of certified TEE/TTE anesthesiologists and provide all anesthesiologists access to perioperative TEE/TTE machines in anesthesiology departments, considering the increasing number of older and sicker surgical patients scheduled for noncardiac surgery.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Echocardiography
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Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth
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Semin. cardiothorac. vasc. anesth
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Seminars in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Journal subject:
ANESTESIOLOGIA
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Saudi Arabia
Country of publication:
United States