FloTrac® monitoring system: What are its uses in critically ill medical patients?

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 349, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 352-356

  Argueta, Erwin ^a   Berdine, Gilbert ^a   Pena, Camilo ^a   Nugent, Kenneth M ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial pressure waveform analysis; Cardiac output; ICU; Sepsis; Stroke volume variation; Systemic vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY CATHETER; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIOVASCULAR MONITORING DEVICE; CIRCULATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE COURSE; FIBEROPTIC OXIMETER CATHETER; FLUID THERAPY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART OUTPUT MEASUREMENT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION; WAVEFORM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVICES; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84927175997     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: 15382990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0000000000000393     Document Type: Review

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