Echocardiography-directed management of hemodynamically unstable neonates in tertiary care hospitals

Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette

Table 4 Comparison of the echocardiography-directed management (ECDM) group after treatment and the control group in the cohort of patients with birth weight ≤ 1500 g

Variable	BW ≤ 1500 g				Difference	95% CI	P value*
	ECDM (n = 19)		Control (n = 15)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
HR (bpm)	150.68	18.81	133.27	20.66	− 17.42	− 31.24 to − 3.60	0.015
LVOT (cm²)	0.32	0.04	0.28	0.04	− 0.04	− 0.07 to − 0.01	0.023
LVTI	10.51	2.11	10.06	1.15	− 0.46	− 1.69 to 0.78	0.458
LVO (ml/kg/min)	468.45	157.72	277.26	63.96	− 191.19	− 279.93 to − 102.45	0.0001
RVOT (cm²)	0.33	0.05	0.28	0.05	− 0.05	− 0.08 to − 0.01	0.010
RVTI	11.18	2.19	10.99	1.27	− 0.19	− 1.49 to 1.11	0.770
RVO (ml/kg/min)	513.21	172.05	303.08	74.62	− 210.13	− 307.8 to − 112.50	0.0001
FS (%)	33.71	3.66	31.97	3.03	− 1.74	− 4.13 to 0.65	0.148
EF (%)	66.58	5.24	64.00	4.77	− 2.58	− 6.12 to 0.97	0.148
TAPSE (cm)	0.66	0.08	0.65	0.08	− 0.01	− 0.07 to 0.05	0.718
MAPSE (cm)	0.43	0.05	0.43	0.06	0.001	− 0.04 to 0.04	0.970

HR heart rate, LVOT left ventricular outflow tract diameter, LVTI left flow tract velocity time integral, LVO left ventricular output, RVOT right ventricular outflow tract diameter, RVTI right flow tract velocity time integral, RVO right ventricular output, FS fractional shortening, EF ejection fraction, TAPSE tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion, MAPSE mitral annular plane systolic excursion
Data are mean and standard deviation (SD)
95% CI = 95% confidence interval
^*Unpaired t test
The significance in (HR, LVOT, LVO, RVOT, RVO) and it's P-value