A multicenter evaluation of a new continuous cardiac output pulmonary artery catheter system.
Crit Care Med
; 26(8): 1346-50, 1998 Aug.
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| ID: mdl-9710092
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To validate a new system of continuous cardiac output monitoring.DESIGN:
Multicenter, prospective, nonrandomized clinical study.SETTING:
Four university hospitals. PATIENTS Forty-seven adult intensive care unit patients.INTERVENTIONS:
Pulmonary artery catheterization. MEASUREMENTS AND MAINRESULTS:
Continuous and bolus cardiac output measurements were obtained over 72 hrs. The 327 continuous cardiac output measurements compared favorably with bolus cardiac output measurements (bias = 0.12 L/min, precision = +/-0.84). The continuous cardiac measurement was not adversely affected by temperatures of <37 degrees C or >38 degrees C, high (>7.5 L/min) or low (<4.5 L/min) cardiac output values, or duration (72 hrs) of the study.CONCLUSIONS:
This continuous cardiac output system provides a reliable estimate of cardiac output for clinical use if applied in conditions similar to this study. The combination of a continuous measure of cardiac output with other continuous physiologic monitoring (arterial and mixed venous oxygen saturation, oxygen consumption, etc.) may provide important information that no single parameter could achieve.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Artéria Pulmonar
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Cateterismo Venoso Central
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Débito Cardíaco
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Cateteres de Demora
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Monitorização Fisiológica
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
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Observational_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Crit Care Med
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos