Review Competency Goals for the Module:
- IVC size and respiratory variation
- Basic color Doppler assessment for severe valvular regurgitation (as screening method only)
- Severe hypovolemia: small, hyperdynamic ventricles; small IVC with wide respiratory variations
- LV failure: Global LV systolic dysfunction; heterogeneous contractility pattern suggest of myocardial ischemia; LV cavity dilation suggestive of chronic cardiac disease
- RV failure: Acute cor pulmonale: RV dilatation and paradoxical septal motion; isolated RV dilation suggestive of RV infarct; associated findings of dilated, no collapsible IVC
