The Role of Point-of-care Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest; A Narrative Review
Cardiac arrest is a life-threatening condition with a high mortality rate, necessitating prompt recognition and treatment of reversible causes to enhance patient survival. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has emerged as a useful tool that contributes to optimizing resuscitative efforts. This imagin...
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| author | George Latsios Elias Sanidas Maria Velliou Charalampos Parisis George Trantalis Maria Drakopoulou Konstantina Aggeli Andreas Synetos Konstantinos Toutouzas Costas Tsioufis |
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Cardiac arrest is a life-threatening condition with a high mortality rate, necessitating prompt recognition and treatment of reversible causes to enhance patient survival. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has emerged as a useful tool that contributes to optimizing resuscitative efforts. This imaging modality offers real-time visualization that assists in detecting reversible causes such as cardiac tamponade, pulmonary embolism, tension pneumothorax and hypovolemia. This review aims to explore the expanding role of ultrasound in the assessment and management of cardiac arrest, emphasizing its utility in identifying cardiac arrest, differentiating between true pulseless electrical activity (PEA) and pseudo-PEA, detecting the reversible causes, guiding clinical decision-making, and potentially predicting outcomes. A comprehensive literature search was performed using the PubMed database from inception to April 2025. Articles were selected based on their relevance to the role and applications of POCUS in cardiac arrest.
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| spelling | doaj-art-151b03bd58af44ba98f5d114de19e86a2025-08-26T06:00:04ZengShahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesArchives of Academic Emergency Medicine2645-49042025-07-0113110.22037/aaemj.v13i1.2748The Role of Point-of-care Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest; A Narrative ReviewGeorge Latsios0Elias Sanidas1Maria Velliou2Charalampos ParisisGeorge Trantalis3Maria Drakopoulou4Konstantina Aggeli5Andreas Synetos6Konstantinos Toutouzas7Costas Tsioufis81st University Department of Cardiology, "Hippokration" General Hospital, Athens, GreeceDepartment of Cardiology, “Laiko” General Hospital, Athens, GreeceDepartment of Emergency Medicine, “Attikon” University Hospital, Athens, Greece1st University Department of Cardiology, "Hippokration" General Hospital, Athens, Greece1st University Department of Cardiology, "Hippokration" General Hospital, Athens, Greece1st University Department of Cardiology, "Hippokration" General Hospital, Athens, Greece1st University Department of Cardiology, "Hippokration" General Hospital, Athens, Greece1st University Department of Cardiology, "Hippokration" General Hospital, Athens, Greece1st University Department of Cardiology, "Hippokration" General Hospital, Athens, Greece Cardiac arrest is a life-threatening condition with a high mortality rate, necessitating prompt recognition and treatment of reversible causes to enhance patient survival. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has emerged as a useful tool that contributes to optimizing resuscitative efforts. This imaging modality offers real-time visualization that assists in detecting reversible causes such as cardiac tamponade, pulmonary embolism, tension pneumothorax and hypovolemia. This review aims to explore the expanding role of ultrasound in the assessment and management of cardiac arrest, emphasizing its utility in identifying cardiac arrest, differentiating between true pulseless electrical activity (PEA) and pseudo-PEA, detecting the reversible causes, guiding clinical decision-making, and potentially predicting outcomes. A comprehensive literature search was performed using the PubMed database from inception to April 2025. Articles were selected based on their relevance to the role and applications of POCUS in cardiac arrest. https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/article/view/2748POCUScardiac arrestreversible causesPoint-of-care systemsultrasonographyheart arrest |
| spellingShingle | George Latsios Elias Sanidas Maria Velliou Charalampos Parisis George Trantalis Maria Drakopoulou Konstantina Aggeli Andreas Synetos Konstantinos Toutouzas Costas Tsioufis The Role of Point-of-care Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest; A Narrative Review Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine POCUS cardiac arrest reversible causes Point-of-care systems ultrasonography heart arrest |
| title | The Role of Point-of-care Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest; A Narrative Review |
| title_full | The Role of Point-of-care Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest; A Narrative Review |
| title_fullStr | The Role of Point-of-care Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest; A Narrative Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Role of Point-of-care Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest; A Narrative Review |
| title_short | The Role of Point-of-care Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest; A Narrative Review |
| title_sort | role of point of care ultrasound in cardiac arrest a narrative review |
| topic | POCUS cardiac arrest reversible causes Point-of-care systems ultrasonography heart arrest |
| url | https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/article/view/2748 |
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