Caution Is Warranted When Applying Algorithms for Assessing Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction and Filling Pressure in Critically Ill Patients

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, Section of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. Electronic address: filipposanfi@yahoo.it.
• ² Department of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden.
• ³ Medical Intensive Care Unit, Amiens University Hospital, Amiens, France.
• ⁴ Intensive Care, St George's University Hospital NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
• ⁵ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Poitiers Teaching Hospital, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers INSERM CIC 1402 (ALIVE group), Poitiers, France.
• ⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Perioperative Medicine, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris Cité University, Paris, France.
• ⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• ⁸ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁹ CHIREC Hospitals Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
• ¹⁰ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹¹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
• ¹² Intensive Care Department, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
• ¹³ Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital, NBMLHD, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (CCM/CVK), Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Charles University, Third Faculty of Medicine and FNKV University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ¹⁶ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Northwell Health LIJ/NSUH Medical Center, Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York.
• ¹⁷ Service de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe de Recherche Clinique CARMAS, Inserm U955, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France.
• ¹⁸ Departments of Cardiology and Critical Care, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, part of Guys' and St. Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
• ¹⁹ Department of Surgical Science and Integrated Diagnostic, University of Genova, Genoa, Italy.
• ²⁰ Department of Clinical Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
• ²¹ Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Department of Emergency, Health Integrated Agency of Friuli Centrale-ASUFC, Sant'Antonio Abate Hospital di Tolmezzo (Udine), Tolmezzo, Italy.
• ²² Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Clinical Division of General Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ²³ Service de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
• ²⁴ Medical-Surgical ICU, Inserm CIC 1435, Dupuytren Teaching Hospital, Limoges, France.
• ²⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, General University Hospital and First Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czechia.