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The PRICES statement: an ESICM expert consensus on methodology for conducting and reporting critical care echocardiography research studies

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Abstract

Purpose

Echocardiography is a common tool for cardiac and hemodynamic assessments in critical care research. However, interpretation (and applications) of results and between-study comparisons are often difficult due to the lack of certain important details in the studies. PRICES (Preferred Reporting Items for Critical care Echocardiography Studies) is a project endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and conducted by the Echocardiography Working Group, aiming at producing recommendations for standardized reporting of critical care echocardiography (CCE) research studies.

Methods

The PRICE panel identified lists of clinical and echocardiographic parameters (the “items”) deemed important in four main areas of CCE research: left ventricular systolic and diastolic functions, right ventricular function and fluid management. Each item was graded using a critical index (CI) that combined the relative importance of each item and the fraction of studies that did not report it, also taking experts’ opinion into account.

Results

A list of items in each area that deemed essential for the proper interpretation and application of research results is recommended. Additional items which aid interpretation were also proposed.

Conclusion

The PRICES recommendations reported in this document, as a checklist, represent an international consensus of experts as to which parameters and information should be included in the design of echocardiography research studies. PRICES recommendations provide guidance to scientists in the field of CCE with the objective of providing a recommended framework for reporting of CCE methodology and results.

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PRICES was endorsed and supported by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele University Hospital, Catania, Italy

    Filippo Sanfilippo

  2. Intensive Care Unit, Nepean Hospital, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Stephen Huang, Anthony McLean & Sam Orde

  3. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Antoine Herpain

  4. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

    Martin Balik

  5. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Michelle S. Chew

  6. Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

    Fernando Clau-Terré

  7. Department of Perioperative Medicine, Bart’s Heart Centre St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, W. Smithfield, London, UK

    Carlos Corredor

  8. CHIREC Hospitals, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Daniel De Backer

  9. Cardiothoracic Critical Care, St Georges Hospital, St Georges University of London, London, UK

    Nick Fletcher

  10. Intensive Care Medicine Unit, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, 92100, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

    Guillaume Geri & Antoine Vieillard-Baron

  11. INSERM UMR-1018, CESP, Team Kidney and Heart, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Villejuif, France

    Guillaume Geri & Antoine Vieillard-Baron

  12. Service de réanimation médicale, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 51 Avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 94000, Créteil, France

    Armand Mekontso-Dessap

  13. Department of Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Nephrological, Anesthesiological and Geriatric Sciences, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, Policlinico Umberto Primo, Viale del Policlinico, Rome, Italy

    Andrea Morelli

  14. Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Tatjana Petrinic

  15. Medical Intensive Care Unit, Amiens University Hospital, Amiens, France

    Michel Slama

  16. Department of Intensive Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Iwan C. C. van der Horst

  17. Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Inserm CIC 1435, Limoges University Hospital, Limoges, France

    Philippe Vignon

  18. Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Northwell Health LIJ/NSUH Medical Center, Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, USA

    Paul Mayo

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Sanfilippo, F., Huang, S., Herpain, A. et al. The PRICES statement: an ESICM expert consensus on methodology for conducting and reporting critical care echocardiography research studies. Intensive Care Med 47, 1–13 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06262-5

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