title: Validity and reliability of cardiac output by arterial thermodilution and arterial pulse contour analysis compared with pulmonary artery thermodilution in intensive care unit.
abstract: Cardiac output measurement has a significat role in the critical care setting. The standard of measurement currently is via pulmonary arterial catheter but it has some technical difficulties and serious complications. The authors performed a new method of measurement that used a catheter in a femoral artery. The results of both methods performed simultaneously in 10 surgical intensive care patients every 2 hours for 24 hours were compared. There was high correlation between the two methods, r = 0.97. The average difference of the cardiac output values was 0.46 l/min with standard deviation 0.56 l/min.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
authors.forename: Thewarug
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Werawatganon
authors.forename: Sahadol
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Punyatavorn
authors.forename: Phornlert
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chatkaew
authors.forename: Pavena
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bunburaphong
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016534:Cardiac Output, High / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011674:Pulse; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013815:Thermodilution / Q000379:methods*