Emergency medicine
New acoustic window for assessing the inferior vena cava collapsibility in humans in the prone position

Anton Kasatkin; Aleksandr Urakov; Alekse Shchegolev; Vadim Matreshkin; Ivan Zlobin

Volume 9, Issue 1 , January 2023, , Pages 76-78

Abstract
  Objective: Ultrasound assessment of inferior vena cava (IVC) collapsibility is performed todetermine the volume status of critically ill patients. We propose a new acoustic windowfor visualizing a vein in a prone patient.Case Presentation: A healthy volunteer took part in the study. The study protocol ...  Read More