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Appropriate Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Patients With Acute Dyspnea in Emergency Department or Inpatient Settings: A Clinical Guideline From the American College of Physicians.

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Qaseem, A; Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, I; Mustafa, RA; Kansagara, D; Fitterman, N; Wilt, TJ; Batur, P; Cooney, TG; Crandall, CJ; Hicks, LA; Lin, JS ...
Published in: Ann Intern Med
July 2021

DESCRIPTION: The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to provide clinical recommendations on the appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department (ED) or inpatient settings to improve the diagnostic, treatment, and health outcomes of those with suspected congestive heart failure, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, pleural effusion, or pneumothorax. METHODS: The ACP Clinical Guidelines Committee based this guideline on a systematic review on the benefits, harms, and diagnostic test accuracy of POCUS; patient values and preferences; and costs of POCUS. The systematic review evaluated health outcomes, diagnostic timeliness, treatment decisions, and test accuracy. The critical health, diagnostic, and treatment outcomes evaluated were in-hospital mortality, time to diagnosis, and time to treatment. The important outcomes evaluated were intensive care unit admissions, correctness of diagnosis, disease-specific outcomes, hospital readmissions, length of hospital stay, and quality of life. The critical test accuracy outcomes included false-positive results for suspected pneumonia, pneumothorax, and pulmonary embolism and false-negative results for suspected congestive heart failure, pneumonia, pneumothorax, and pulmonary embolism. Important test accuracy outcomes included false-positive results for suspected congestive heart failure and false-negative and false-positive results for suspected pleural effusion. This guideline was developed using the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) method. TARGET AUDIENCE AND PATIENT POPULATION: The target audience is all clinicians, and the target patient population is adult patients with acute dyspnea in ED or inpatient settings. RECOMMENDATION: ACP suggests that clinicians may use point-of-care ultrasonography in addition to the standard diagnostic pathway when there is diagnostic uncertainty in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department or inpatient settings (conditional recommendation; low-certainty evidence).

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Ann Intern Med

DOI

EISSN

1539-3704

Publication Date

July 2021

Volume

174

Issue

7

Start / End Page

985 / 993

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Ultrasonography
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Point-of-Care Testing
  • Patient Readmission
  • Length of Stay
  • Humans
  • Hospital Mortality
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • Dyspnea
  • Critical Pathways
 

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Qaseem, A., Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, I., Mustafa, R. A., Kansagara, D., Fitterman, N., Wilt, T. J., … Williams, J. W. (2021). Appropriate Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Patients With Acute Dyspnea in Emergency Department or Inpatient Settings: A Clinical Guideline From the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med, 174(7), 985–993. https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-7844
Qaseem, Amir, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Reem A. Mustafa, Devan Kansagara, Nick Fitterman, Timothy J. Wilt, Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians, et al. “Appropriate Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Patients With Acute Dyspnea in Emergency Department or Inpatient Settings: A Clinical Guideline From the American College of Physicians.Ann Intern Med 174, no. 7 (July 2021): 985–93. https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-7844.
Qaseem A, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Mustafa RA, Kansagara D, Fitterman N, Wilt TJ, et al. Appropriate Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Patients With Acute Dyspnea in Emergency Department or Inpatient Settings: A Clinical Guideline From the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2021 Jul;174(7):985–93.
Qaseem A, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Mustafa RA, Kansagara D, Fitterman N, Wilt TJ, Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians, Batur P, Cooney TG, Crandall CJ, Hicks LA, Lin JS, Maroto M, Tice J, Tufte JE, Vijan S, Williams JW. Appropriate Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Patients With Acute Dyspnea in Emergency Department or Inpatient Settings: A Clinical Guideline From the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2021 Jul;174(7):985–993.

Published In

Ann Intern Med

DOI

EISSN

1539-3704

Publication Date

July 2021

Volume

174

Issue

7

Start / End Page

985 / 993

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Ultrasonography
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Point-of-Care Testing
  • Patient Readmission
  • Length of Stay
  • Humans
  • Hospital Mortality
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • Dyspnea
  • Critical Pathways