Effectiveness of monitoring patients with acute dyspnea with serial focused ultrasound of the lungs and inferior vena cava: a systematic review protocol

TY - JOUR

T1 - Effectiveness of monitoring patients with acute dyspnea with serial focused ultrasound of the lungs and inferior vena cava

T2 - a systematic review protocol

AU - Arvig, Michael Dan

AU - Laursen, Christian B

AU - Jacobsen, Niels

AU - Gæde, Peter Haulund

AU - Lassen, Annmarie Touborg

PY - 2019/7/8

Y1 - 2019/7/8

N2 - OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of serial focused ultrasound of the lungs (FLUS) and/or inferior vena cava (IVC) compared to standard care for monitoring patients with acute dyspnea.INTRODUCTION: Acute dyspnea is one of the most common complaints reported by patients in hospital emergency departments, and has high in-hospital mortality rates. The current methods of monitoring patients with acute dyspnea lack both sensitivity and specificity. Point-of-care focused ultrasound of the lungs and inferior vena cava is a promising monitoring tool, but an overview of the existing evidence is absent.INCLUSION CRITERIA: This review will include studies of adult patients admitted to hospital with acute dyspnea that is examined via focused ultrasound of the lungs, inferior vena cava or both a minimum of twice during hospitalization compared to standard care.METHODS: The following electronic databases will be searched: PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Gray literature will be sought in OpenGrey and ProQuest. The search is limited to articles written in English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and German. Articles published before 2003 will be excluded from the search and duplicates will be removed. Two independent reviewers will screen and critically appraise the included studies and perform the data extraction. If possible, data will be synthesized with statistical meta-analysis; otherwise, data will be presented in narrative form.SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION NUMBER: PROSPERO CRD42018116608.

AB - OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of serial focused ultrasound of the lungs (FLUS) and/or inferior vena cava (IVC) compared to standard care for monitoring patients with acute dyspnea.INTRODUCTION: Acute dyspnea is one of the most common complaints reported by patients in hospital emergency departments, and has high in-hospital mortality rates. The current methods of monitoring patients with acute dyspnea lack both sensitivity and specificity. Point-of-care focused ultrasound of the lungs and inferior vena cava is a promising monitoring tool, but an overview of the existing evidence is absent.INCLUSION CRITERIA: This review will include studies of adult patients admitted to hospital with acute dyspnea that is examined via focused ultrasound of the lungs, inferior vena cava or both a minimum of twice during hospitalization compared to standard care.METHODS: The following electronic databases will be searched: PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Gray literature will be sought in OpenGrey and ProQuest. The search is limited to articles written in English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and German. Articles published before 2003 will be excluded from the search and duplicates will be removed. Two independent reviewers will screen and critically appraise the included studies and perform the data extraction. If possible, data will be synthesized with statistical meta-analysis; otherwise, data will be presented in narrative form.SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION NUMBER: PROSPERO CRD42018116608.

U2 - 10.11124/JBISRIR-D-19-00027

DO - 10.11124/JBISRIR-D-19-00027

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 31290795

SN - 2202-4433

JO - JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports

JF - JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports

ER -