ABSTRACT
Resumen: La ecocardiografía realizada por especialistas no radiólogos es una herramienta que contribuye al diagnóstico y monitoreo de los pacientes críticos, además de ser una herramienta económica, precisa, no invasiva y que se puede realizar a la cabecera del paciente. La medida del gasto cardiaco se refiere a la cantidad de sangre que sale de los ventrículos del corazón a la circulación mayor o menor; en el ámbito de la medicina crítica, es una medida muy importante para verificar el diagnóstico etiológico del estado de choque y además se utiliza para guiar el manejo de los pacientes. Nuestro estudio comparó la medida de gasto cardiaco medido a través del volumen sistólico en modo bidimensional versus ecuación de continuidad.
Abstract: The echocardiography performed by non-radiological specialists is a tool that contributes to the diagnosis and monitoring of critical patients, as well as being an inexpensive, accurate, non-invasive tool that can be performed at the patient's bedside. The measurement of cardiac output refers to the amount of blood sold from the ventricles of the heart to the major or minor circulation in the field of critical medicine is a very important measure to verify the diagnosis and the state of the shock syndrome and if it is used to guide the management of patients, our study compared the measurement of cardiac output through systolic volume in two-dimensional mode versus the continuity equation.
Resumo: O ecocardiograma realizado por não radiologistas é uma ferramenta que contribui para o diagnóstico e acompanhamento de pacientes críticos, além de ser uma ferramenta não invasiva, de baixo custo e que pode ser realizada à beira do leito. A medida do débito cardíaco refere-se à quantidade de sangue que sai dos ventrículos cardíacos até a maior ou menor circulação. No campo da medicina crítica é uma medida muito importante para verificar o diagnóstico etiológico do estado de choque e também é utilizada para orientar o manejo dos pacientes. Nosso estudo comparou a medida do débito cardíaco medida através do volume sistólico no modo bidimensional versus a equação de continuidade.
ABSTRACT
Sixty clinically normal German shepherd dogs, 31 males and 29 females, ranging in age from 1 and 5 years and with a body weight ranging from 22 to 37.2 kg, were examined by the two-dimensional mode, M-mode, and Doppler echocardiography. In Doppler mode, the mitral valve flows were obtained, where the aim was to determine the velocity peaks and ratios of the E and A waves and the mitral E wave deceleration time. The velocity peaks were obtained for the tricuspid, pulmonary and aortic valves. On the left ventricular outflow tract flow, the time velocity integral and aortic cross-sectional area was used to calculate the cardiac output. A statistically significant correlation with the body weight was found for the systolic left atrial and diastolic aortic diameter on twodimensional mode. On M-mode, there was a significant correlation between the body weight and the systolic left atrium and diastolic aortic dimension, systolic and diastolic left ventricular, septal and posterior wall dimensions. Doppler echocardiography showed that there was no significant correlation between the body weight and the mitral, tricuspid, pulmonary and aortic valves flows. These results demonstrate that it is important to know the normal echocardiographic values for German shepherd dogs because there are some characteristics peculiar to this particular breed. The data obtained is expected to be helpful for studies on small animal cardiology.