Cardiac output monitoring: A contemporary assessment and review

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 177-185

  Thiele, Robert H ^a   Bartels, Karsten ^b   Gan, Tong J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Echocardiography; Goal directed therapy; Hemodynamic monitoring; Minimally invasive monitoring; Pulmonary artery catheter

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AORTA FLOW; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOREACTANCE TECHNIQUE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIAC OUTPUT MONITOR; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR MONITORING DEVICE; CORE TEMPERATURE; DILUTION CURVE; DOPPLER DEVICE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FIBEROPTIC OXIMETER CATHETER; HEART BEAT; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART OUTPUT; HEART OUTPUT MEASUREMENT; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION TIME; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INDICATOR DILUTION CURVE; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LITHIUM DILUTION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOENS KORTEWEG EQUATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHIC WAVEFORM; PRESSURE RECORDING ANALYTICAL METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; PULSE CONTOUR ANALYSIS; PULSE CONTOUR DEVICE; PULSE WAVE; REBREATHING; RESPONSE TIME; STANDARD; STEWART HAMILTON EQUATION; SWAN THERMODILUTION MEASUREMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERMODILUTION; THERMODILUTION DEVICE; THORACIC ELECTRICAL BIOIMPEDANCE; TRICUSPID VALVE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WAVEFORM; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; DEVICES; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; THERMODILUTION;

EID: 84925602605     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000608     Document Type: Article

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