Critical Care Guidelines - Part 2

The second part of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's guidelines regarding bedside ultrasonography have recently been posted on their website. This part of the guidelines, by Levitov et al., focuses on cardiac bedside ultrasonography in the critical care setting.

The link can be found here: SCCM: Cardiac Ultrasonography

This guideline lists several class 1 recommendations for the use of bedside cardiac ultrasonography based on the GRADE system, which demonstrates that there is evidence to support the use of beside cardiac ultrasonography in the evaluation of the critically ill patient.