Intraoperative hemodynamic monitoring during organ transplantation: What is new?

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 291-296

  Della Rocca, Giorgio ^a   Brondani, Anita ^a   Costa, Maria Gabriella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hemodynamic monitoring; Liver transplantation; Lung transplantation; Pulmonary artery catheter; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transpulmonary thermodilution

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; ORGAN DONOR; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; REVIEW; THERMODILUTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SWAN GANZ CATHETER;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; THERMODILUTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 67651015672     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e32832d927d     Document Type: Review

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