Indulge me and imagine that you are on intensive care unit rounds at an academic hospital. You are discussing a patient who is mechanically ventilated, hypotensive, and on vasopressors. Your team is ...

Crucial to minimization of adverse events during hemodialysis, clinical estimation of intravascular volume generally relies on dry weight, which is poorly predictive. Ultrasound assessment of indexed ...

The assessment of a patient’s body fluid status is a challenging task for modern clinicians. Ultrasonography has numerous advantages, the most important being reproducibility and bedside monitoring of ...

This edition of the Resident Journal reviews the utility of ultrasound in measuring the inferior vena cava (IVC) as a surrogate of intravascular volume status and then reviews the recent literature to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a recently published study, researchers examined the challenges of assessing hydration status for patients on ...

Amniotic fluid volume is evaluated every time an ultrasound is performed on your baby. It's a standard way of checking on your baby's health. Your doctor will also do this test during a biophysical ...

This briefing describes the regulated use of the technology for the indication specified, in the setting described, and with any other specific equipment referred to. It is the responsibility of ...