Minimally Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring in Intensive Care Unit. A Brief Review

Authors

  • Hector Anninos Evagelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
  • Antonis S Manolis Third Department of Cardiology, Athens University School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Keywords:

hemodynamic monitoring, cardiac output, stroke volume, echocardiography, Doppler

Abstract

To avoid use of a Swan-Ganz catheter and its attendant complications, new technologies have now become available to help the clinician perform a less invasive hemodynamic monitoring in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Among these, conventional echocardiography, the esophageal Doppler, pulse pressure analysis, the transpulmonary thermodilution, the indicator dilution and the thoracic electrical bioimpedance and bioreactance, all aim at measuring stroke volume and cardiac output by less invasive means and they are herein briefly reviewed.

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Published

2016-03-04

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Review

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