Noninvasive determination of central venous pressure by ultrasound imaging / 中华超声影像学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To determine the central venous pressure (CVP) noninvasively based on hemodynamics principles using ultrasound location of the collapse point of the internal jugular vein.Methods Forty patients were enrolled in this study.The collapse point of the internal jugular vein was located and marked by a linear transducer,the body mark of right atrium was marked on the right lateral wall of the chest.The noninvasive CVP was calculated according to the vertical distance between those two points.The invasive CVP determination by central venous catheter was also carried out on all the patients.Correlation analysis was used to compare the invasive and noninvasive methods.With invasive determination of CVP as the gold standard,the ROC curve of the noninvasive ultrasound method was sketched to explore the optimal cut-off points.Results The correlation analysis reveal high positive correlation between CVPs determined by ultrasound imaging and central venous catheter (r =0.906,P ＜0.01).By the ROC curve test,fluid column height of 10.75 cm by ultrasound method was determined as the cut-off point,with the sensitivity and specificity of diagnosing elevation of CVP being 88.9％ and 93.5 ％ respectively.The corresponding area under the curve was 0.971.Conclusions Ultrasound imaging could be used to determine CVP noninvasively,which would be helpful in diagnosis of the circulating load of patients.