Echocardiography in a Patient on Mechanical Ventilation

Sachdeva, A.

Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 63(7): 41-43

2015


ISSN/ISBN: 0004-5772
PMID: 26731826
Document Number: 684686
Cardiopulmonary interactions or effects of spontaneous and mechanical ventilation (MV) were first documented in the year 1733. Stephen Hales showed that the blood pressure of healthy individual fell during spontaneous inspiration and he later went on to discover the ventilator. A year later Kussmaul described pulsus paradoxus (inspiratory absence of radial pulse) in patients with tubercular pericarditis. Echocardiography can help to diagnose a wide variety of cardiovascular diseases and can guide therapeutic decisions in patients on mechanical ventilation.

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