Cardiac output monitoring devices: an analytic review

To evaluate cardiac output (CO), both invasive and semi-invasive monitors are used in critical care medicine. The pulmonary artery catheter is an invasive tool to assess CO with the major criticism that the level of its invasiveness is not supported by an improvement in patients’ outcomes. The inter...

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Veröffentlicht in:Internal and emergency medicine 2012-04, Vol.7 (2), p.163-171
Hauptverfasser: Porhomayon, Jahan, El-Solh, Ali, Papadakos, Peter, Nader, Nader Djalal
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:To evaluate cardiac output (CO), both invasive and semi-invasive monitors are used in critical care medicine. The pulmonary artery catheter is an invasive tool to assess CO with the major criticism that the level of its invasiveness is not supported by an improvement in patients’ outcomes. The interest in a lesser invasive techniques is high. Therefore, alternative techniques have been developed recently, and are used frequently in critical care medicine. Cardiac output can be monitored continuously by different devices that analyze the stroke volume and CO. The purpose of this review is to understand these new technologies and their applications and limitations.
ISSN:1828-0447
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DOI:10.1007/s11739-011-0738-9