Systematic review of cardiac output measurements by echocardiography vs. thermodilution: the techniques are not interchangeable

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1223-1233

  Wetterslev, Mik ^a   Møller Sørensen, Hasse ^a   Johansen, Rasmus Rothmann ^a   Perner, Anders ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Critical care; Echocardiography; Hemodynamic monitoring; Intensive care unit; Thermodilution technique

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART OUTPUT MEASUREMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERMODILUTION; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAOPERATIVE MONITORING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CRITICAL CARE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; THERMODILUTION;

EID: 84959487553     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-016-4258-y     Document Type: Review

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