Title
Cardiac Output Estimation In Mechanically Ventilated Patients: A Comparison Between Prolonged Expiration Method And Thermodilution
Abstract
A non-invasive method to estimate cardiac output (CO) in mechanically ventilated patients, based on prolonged expiration, has been previously described. With the aim to assess its performances, we prospectively enrolled fifteen cardiac surgery patients, and compared the results obtained with the non-invasive method with the ones obtained using two invasive approaches based on thermodilution. The correlations between the prolonged expiration method with both the thermodilution-based ones show high values (rho(2) > 0.77 and rho(2) > 0.89). This encouraging agreement is also confirmed by the closeness between the measured values of CO: the mean differences considering all patients and the two reference invasive techniques are -0.8 % and -7.5 %. These values show the slight underestimation of CO by the proposed non-invasive method with respect to the gold standard. On the other hand the described method could represent a good compromise between accuracy and non-invasiveness, which fosters the implementation of a new monitoring tool suitable for a semi-continuous CO assessment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346523
2012 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
cardiology,patient monitoring
Prolonged expiration,Remote patient monitoring,Anesthesia,Cardiac surgery,Cardiac output,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2012
1557-170X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S Cecchini100.34
Schena E2489.99
Paola Saccomandi38930.36
F Polisca400.34
I Di Cecca500.34
M Notaro600.34
M Carassiti700.34
Sergio Silvestri8155.82