125. IVC Ultrasound and Volume Responsiveness

Should this patient get more fluid? It comes up on nearly every ICU shift, and the IVC is usually the first thing we scan to answer it. In this Pulm PEEPs Pearls episode, Furf and Monty cover how to get a reliable IVC view, how to read it in intubated and spontaneously breathing patients, the cutoffs worth knowing, what the data actually show, and the pitfalls that make the IVC mislead us.