Impedance cardiography: Can it replace thermodilution and the pulmonary artery catheter?

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 728-732

  Stout, Christopher L ^a,b   Van De Water, Joseph M ^a   Thompson, William M ^a   Bowers, Elliott W ^a   Sheppard, Sam W ^a   Tewari, Amy M ^a   Dalton, Martin L ^a  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL CENTER OF CENTRAL GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; PULMONARY ASSIST DEVICE; RANDOMIZATION; THERMODILUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWAN GANZ CATHETER;

AGED; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THERMODILUTION;

EID: 33747828689     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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