Indulge me and imagine that you are on intensive care unit rounds at an academic hospital. You are discussing a patient who is mechanically ventilated, hypotensive, and on vasopressors. Your team is ...

Crucial to minimization of adverse events during hemodialysis, clinical estimation of intravascular volume generally relies on dry weight, which is poorly predictive. Ultrasound assessment of indexed ...

The assessment of a patient’s body fluid status is a challenging task for modern clinicians. Ultrasonography has numerous advantages, the most important being reproducibility and bedside monitoring of ...

This edition of the Resident Journal reviews the utility of ultrasound in measuring the inferior vena cava (IVC) as a surrogate of intravascular volume status and then reviews the recent literature to ...

Amniotic fluid volume is evaluated every time an ultrasound is performed on your baby. It's a standard way of checking on your baby's health. Your doctor will also do this test during a biophysical ...