Technique of intraoperative placement of thermodilution catheter for cardiac output measurement in children.
A simplified solid thermodilution catheter has been used in 100 infants and children undergoing open heart surgery. The catheter is now available commercially. It is introduced into the main pulmonary artery through the right ventricular wall. The technique is simple, non-traumatic, speedy and has been without complications in 100 cases.
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D002302:Cardiac Output; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D013815:Thermodilution