Common pitfalls and tips and tricks to get the most out of your transpulmonary thermodilution device: Results of a survey and state-of-the-art review

Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 89-116

  Hofkens, Pieter Jan ^a   Verrijcken, Anton ^a   Merveille, Kelly ^a   Neyrinck, Stef ^a   Van Regenmortel, Niels ^a   De Laet, Inneke ^a   Schoonheydt, Karen ^a   Dits, Hilde ^a   Bein, Berthold ^b   Huber, Wolfgang ^c   Malbrain, Manu L N G ^a  

^a ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; Cardiac output; Critical care; Haemodynamic monitoring; Knowledge; Picco; Pitfalls; Pulse contour analysis; Survey; Tips and tricks; Transpulmonary thermodilution

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; BELGIAN; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FIBEROPTIC OXIMETER CATHETER; GENDER; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL STAFF; NETHERLANDS; NURSE; PATIENT MONITORING; RESIDENT; REVIEW; THERMODILUTION; THERMODILUTION DEVICE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NURSING EDUCATION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; TRANSPULMONARY THERMODILUTION; CATHETERIZATION; DEVICES; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; MALE;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; THERMODILUTION;

EID: 84928795847     PISSN: 16425758     EISSN: 17312531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/AIT.a2014.0068     Document Type: Review

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