Tips for carotid ultrasound in the intensive care unit

Issac Cheong; Milton Bermeo; Guido Granberg; Francisco Marcelo Tamagnone

doi:10.1007/s40477-022-00708-w

Tips for carotid ultrasound in the intensive care unit

J Ultrasound. 2023 Mar;26(1):277-283. doi: 10.1007/s40477-022-00708-w. Epub 2022 Aug 2.

Authors

Issac Cheong^{1

2}, Milton Bermeo³, Guido Granberg^{4

5}, Francisco Marcelo Tamagnone⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sanatorio De los Arcos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. issac_cheong@hotmail.com.
² Argentinian Critical Care Ultrasonography Association (ASARUC), Buenos Aires, Argentina. issac_cheong@hotmail.com.
³ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sanatorio De los Arcos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁴ Argentinian Critical Care Ultrasonography Association (ASARUC), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁵ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital de Alta Complejidad Pte. Juan Domingo Perón, Formosa, Argentina.

Abstract

The ultrasonography of carotid arteries plays a key role in evaluating cerebrovascular disease. There are some useful considerations to perform it correctly in the intensive care unit, such as using different kind of transducer, Doppler mode optimization, and the correct interpretation of the findings.

Keywords: Carotid duplex; Carotid ultrasonography; POCUS; Point-of-care ultrasound.

MeSH terms

Carotid Arteries* / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Ultrasonography
Ultrasonography, Carotid Arteries*