Department of Ultrasound, University-Town Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Chongqing Renji Hospital, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, China.
Ren Fail. 2022 Dec;44(1):1634-1639. doi: 10.1080/0886022X.2022.2131573.
To reduce the empirical dependence of ultrasound measurement of the cephalic vein diameter, improve the repeatability of measurements for inexperienced operators, and provide a new method for inexperienced operators.
Operators without ultrasound experience used contact ultrasound and immersion ultrasound to measure the diameter of the cephalic vein. The intraobserver and interobserver repeatability of measurements obtained the two methods were analyzed.
The intraobserver and interobserver repeatability of the cephalic vein diameter measured contact ultrasound by inexperienced operators were average, with intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) of 0.572 (95% CI: 0.239-0.759) and 0.405 (95% CI: -0.057-0.666), respectively. The intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility of the cephalic vein diameter measured by immersion ultrasound were very good, with ICCs of 0.955 (95% CI: 0.922-0.975) and 0.943 (95% CI: 0.900-0.967), respectively. In the Bland-Altman diagram of the intraobserver and interobserver agreement of the immersion ultrasound measurements of the cephalic vein diameter, 96% of the points fell within the 95% limits of agreement.
Immersion ultrasonography can be used to measure the cephalic vein diameter while reducing the dependence of the results on operator experience; inexperienced operators can achieve very good repeatability.
减少头静脉直径超声测量的经验依赖性,提高非超声专业操作人员测量的可重复性,为非超声专业操作人员提供一种新的方法。
无超声经验的操作人员使用接触式超声和浸没式超声测量头静脉直径。分析两种方法获得的测量值的观察者内和观察者间可重复性。
无经验操作人员使用接触式超声测量头静脉直径的观察者内和观察者间重复性中等,组内相关系数(ICC)分别为 0.572(95%置信区间:0.239-0.759)和 0.405(95%置信区间:-0.057-0.666)。使用浸没式超声测量头静脉直径的观察者内和观察者间可重复性非常好,ICC 分别为 0.955(95%置信区间:0.922-0.975)和 0.943(95%置信区间:0.900-0.967)。在头静脉直径浸没式超声测量的观察者内和观察者间一致性的 Bland-Altman 图中,96%的点落在 95%一致性界限内。
浸没式超声可用于测量头静脉直径,同时减少结果对操作人员经验的依赖;非超声专业操作人员可实现非常好的重复性。