Society guideline links: Use of point-of-care echocardiography and ultrasonography as a monitor for therapeutic intervention in critically ill patients

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Cardiac valve disease".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Pericardial disease".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Heart failure in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Aortic dissection and other acute aortic syndromes".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Basic and advanced cardiac life support in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes (non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction)".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Adult with chest pain in the emergency department".)

International

●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): Guidelines for the appropriate use of bedside general and cardiac ultrasonography in the evaluation of critically ill patients – Part II: Cardiac ultrasonography (2016)

●SCCM: Guidelines for the appropriate use of bedside general and cardiac ultrasonography in the evaluation of critically ill patients – Part I (2015)

●World Interactive Network Focused on Critical UltraSound (WINFOCUS): International evidence-based recommendations for focused cardiac ultrasound (2014)

●International Consensus Conference on Lung Ultrasound (ICC-LUS): International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound (2012)

Canada

●Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR): Position statement on point-of-care ultrasound (2019)

United States

●American College of Physicians (ACP): A clinical guideline on appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasonography in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department or inpatient settings (2021)

●American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA): Expert panel recommendations on point-of-care ultrasound education and training for regional anesthesiologists and pain physicians – Part I: Clinical indications (2021)

●ASRA: Expert panel recommendations on point-of-care ultrasound education and training for regional anesthesiologists and pain physicians – Part II: Recommendations (2021)

●American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM): Practice parameter for the performance of point-of-care ultrasound examinations (2020)

●American Society of Echocardiography (ASE): Recommendations for echocardiography laboratories participating in cardiac point of care cardiac ultrasound (POCUS) and critical care echocardiography training (2020)

●ASE, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA), and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS): Guidelines for the use of transesophageal echocardiography to assist with surgical decision-making in the operating room – A surgery-based approach (2020)

●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Ultrasound guidelines – Emergency, point-of-care, and clinical ultrasound guidelines in medicine (2001, revised 2016)

●ASE and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI): Recommendations for cardiac chamber quantification by echocardiography in adults, update (2015)

●ASE: Recommendations on focused cardiac ultrasound (2013)

●American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF)/ASE/American Heart Association (AHA)/American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC)/Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI)/Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)/Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT)/Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR): Appropriate use criteria for echocardiography (2011)

●American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and SCA: Practice guidelines for perioperative transesophageal echocardiography, update (2010)

●ASE and ACEP: A consensus statement on focused cardiac ultrasound in the emergent setting (2010)

Europe

●European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB): Clinical practice guidelines for point-of-care ultrasound – Part one: Common heart and pulmonary applications (2022)

●European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC): International evidence-based guidelines on point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for critically ill neonates and children (2020)

●American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI): Recommendations for cardiac chamber quantification by echocardiography in adults, update (2015)

●EACVI and Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA): Recommendations for the use of echocardiography in acute cardiovascular care (2014)

●EACVI: Recommendations on emergency echocardiography (2013)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM): Guideline on training and practice of perioperative cardiac ultrasound in adults (2014)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Circulation Society (JCS): Indications and interpretation guidelines for cardiovascular ultrasound, revision (2021)