Role of USCOM in Adult Patients With Heart Failure

An Ultrasonic Cardiac Output Monitor, a non-invasive Doppler ultrasonography, is capable of measuring haemodynamic parameters non-invasively and appears to be simple and rapid to use, portable, relatively inexpensive and has less potential complications compared with the standard technique, pulmonary artery thermodilution (PATD). It has been compared favorably with a wide range of standard techniques, including PATD, with good interobserver reliability. USCOM may help on monitoring HF and suggesting proper treatment in order to reduce the mortality of adHF.

2D-echo is a conventional standard-of-care tool for non-invasive hemodynamic assessments in adults. The use of 2D-echo requires highly trained personnel, and assessments may take anywhere between 30-45 minutes. It is used to find out the ejection fraction and to compare the haemodynamic parameters with USCOM in this study.