Jan Poelaert

TL;DR: For the first time, evidence-based clinical recommendations comprehensively address this branch of point-of-care ultrasound, providing a framework for FoCUS to standardize its application in different clinical settings around the world.

TL;DR: Despite lower baseline risk, outcomes were similar in low- and middle-income compared with high-income countries and should also address the need for safe perioperative care.

TL;DR: There was 100% agreement among the participants that general critical care ultrasound and “basic” critical care echocardiography should be mandatory in the curriculum of intensive care unit (ICU) physicians.

TL;DR: The data suggest that cardiac dysfunction in septic shock shows a continuum from isolated diastolic dysfunction to both diastsolic and systolic ventricular failure, which strengthens the need of including the evaluation of pulmonary venous Doppler parameters in each investigation in order to obtain supplementary information to interpret diastolics function of the LV in septic shock patients.

TL;DR: TEE results in altered therapeutic management in at least one third of the (noncardiac surgery) ICU patient population independent of the presence of a PAC.