Echography is mandatory for the initial management of critically ill patients: Yes

Anlage einer invasiven Blutdruckmessung

“…5 ). In kleineren Untersuchungen werden für die primär ultraschallgesteuerte Punktion eine deutlich höhere Erfolgsrate und sogar ein geringerer Zeitaufwand gegenüber der konventionellen Technik beschrieben 2 3 4 .…”

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2014: I. Cardiac dysfunction and cardiac arrest, ultrasound, neurocritical care, ICU-acquired weakness, nutrition, acute kidney injury, and miscellaneous

“…The potential benefits from point-of-care ultrasound (US) and fair expectations about its utility in the ICU sometimes need to reconsidered given the general paucity of the literature on the topic, mainly due to the relative novelty of many applications of US. Three articles published in Intensive Care Medicine last year (re)opened an interesting pro/con debate on the use of echography for the initial management of critically ill patients [ 16 – 18 ].…”