Erschienen in:
01.02.2011 | Editorial
Can the “FloTrac” really track flow in septic patients?
verfasst von:
Xavier Monnet, Daniel Lahner
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2011
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Excerpt
Monitoring cardiac output (CO) is part of the general care of patients with (or at risk of) haemodynamic instability, because the sole arterial pressure may obviously fail to reflect changes in stroke volume. Forty years after the emergence of the pulmonary artery catheter, several alternative devices have been developed for measuring CO. In search of the “gold nugget”, this (very competitive) technologic research aims to find the least invasive, most informative, most cost-effective and easiest-to-use device. …