The inferior vena cava provides valuable information for clinicians in various specializations, both to support physicians in diagnosis and patient monitoring for proper fluid therapy and dehydration assessment. Our patented method offers healthcare professionals a precise, immediate and low variability output showing a quantitative processing, easy to interpret and to include in the medical report.
The PatentAbout 10% of patients who go to the emergency room undergo an evaluation examination of their hydration status and dehydration risk through the ultrasound study of the inferior vena cava pulsatility. This helps medical professionals better classify patients for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, optimizing fluid therapy decisions.
The standard method is cumbersome to apply, requires numerous steps by the operator and offers a measurement with high uncertainty and low repeatability for fluid status evaluation. Because of these problems, operators often limit themselves to classifying the vessel in a binary manner as "full" or "empty", losing a significant amount of information about blood vessel dynamics needed for proper fluid therapy.
The proprietary software processes ultrasound images of the inferior vena cava providing real-time output. The software analyzes the vein accounting for its irregular geometry and thanks to a tracking algorithm, it doesn't lose the section reference. The practical benefits for healthcare workers are many:
The project was carried out within the PoC Instrument initiative implemented by LINKS, with the support of LIFTT, drawn from funds of the Compagnia di San Paolo. Organization of the online conference "Ultrasound of deep vessels: innovative methods and applications" accredited ECM which will be valued by 500+ doctors during 2021, focusing on advanced fluid therapy and dehydration assessment through IVC monitoring.
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