Cardiovascular monitoring: clinical applications of technologic advancements.
Increasing senescence is leading to increased incidence of cardiovascular disease in the surgical population.  Because of advances in technology, extensive cardiovascular monitoring is increasingly available, and guidelines for monitoring are being developed.  An understanding of the cardiac risk of the patient allows proper choice of monitors.  Several advances have been made in the monitoring of blood pressure, myocardial ischemia, infarction, arrhythmias, and various systemic parameters.  The large-scale studies necessary to elucidate the impact of monitoring on clinical outcome have yet to be conducted.
University of California, San Francisco.
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D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D012307:Risk Factors