Liu Linda, Chow Christine, Kersey Cooper, Wiley Brandon, Lindner Jonathan R, Pattock Andrew M, Alviar Carlos L, Mazimbag Sula, Cho Yoonsik, Khaira Kavita, Kirkpatrick James N, Kwon Younghoon
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Chicago, IL USA.
Department of Medicine, University of Washington Seattle, WA USA.
POCUS J. 2024 Nov 15;9(2):50-54. doi: 10.24908/pocus.v9i2.17258. eCollection 2024.
: Cardiac point of care ultrasound (POCUS) has been used with increasing frequency. As a result of this trend, this study sought to characterize cardiologists' perspectives on cardiac POCUS. An 18-question survey on demographics, cardiac POCUS clinical practice, education, and infrastructure was distributed by 16 academic medical centers. Likert scale responses were categorized into three groups: 1) "strongly agree" or "agree" 2) "strongly disagree" and "disagree" and 3) "neutral." Of the 140 survey responses collected from January to September 2021, 41% of respondents used cardiac POCUS more than twice in an inpatient week. Seventy-one percent of cardiologists believed that cardiac POCUS should be integrated more regularly into clinical practice and into cardiology fellowship education. Less than half of respondents (44%) reported easy access to POCUS devices, and more than half of respondents (56%) did not think there was appropriate institutional infrastructure to easily upload and document cardiac POCUS images (56%). : Academic cardiologists had varying opinions on the use and impact of cardiac POCUS. However, most cardiologists believed that cardiac POCUS should be more incorporated within practice despite persisting infrastructure barriers.
心脏床旁超声（POCUS）的使用频率越来越高。由于这一趋势，本研究旨在描述心脏病专家对心脏POCUS的看法。16个学术医疗中心分发了一份关于人口统计学、心脏POCUS临床实践、教育和基础设施的18个问题的调查问卷。李克特量表的回答分为三组：1）“强烈同意”或“同意”；2）“强烈不同意”和“不同意”；3）“中立”。在2021年1月至9月收集的140份调查问卷回复中，41%的受访者在住院一周内使用心脏POCUS超过两次。71%的心脏病专家认为，心脏POCUS应更定期地纳入临床实践和心脏病学专科培训教育。不到一半的受访者（44%）表示能够轻松获取POCUS设备，超过一半的受访者（56%）认为没有合适的机构基础设施来轻松上传和记录心脏POCUS图像（56%）。学术心脏病专家对心脏POCUS的使用和影响意见不一。然而，尽管存在基础设施障碍，大多数心脏病专家认为心脏POCUS应更多地融入实践。
