Prognostic value and clinical net benefit of global longitudinal strain in sepsis: a prospective study with internal bootstrap validation
Objective Conventional left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) often fails to detect early sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction (SIMD). This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic utility of speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE)-derived global longitudinal strain (GLS) and to develop an internally validated clinic...