- Title
- Non-invasive assessment of cardiac output with portable continuous-wave Doppler ultrasound
- Creator
- Meyer, Sascha; Todd, David; Wright, Ian; Gortner, Ludwig; Reynolds, Graham
- Relation
- Emergency Medicine Australasia: EMA Vol. 20, Issue 3, p. 201-208
- Relation
- http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120091517/abstract
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Cardiac output is considered an important parameter when assessing the cardiovascular status of a critically ill patient. Both non-invasive (e.g. bioimpedance, echocardiography) and invasive methods (Swan Ganz catheter) have been used to measure cardiac output. The ultrasonic cardiac output monitoring device provides a new method of non-invasively assessing cardiac output in various clinical settings. The ultrasonic cardiac output monitoring device was introduced clinically in 2001, and appears to be a promising adjunct in the assessment of the cardiovascular state in a variety of patient cohorts. In this short review article, we will introduce this new technique, discuss the required skills and compare it with methods already in use. In particular, a critical comparison with the ‘gold standard’, the invasive measurement of cardiac output with the pulmonary artery catheter, will be given.
- Subject
- cardiac output; invasive; non-invasive; pulmonary artery catheter; ultrasonic cardiac output monitoring
- Identifier
- uon:5108
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/42974
- Identifier
- ISSN:1742-6731
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