The relationship between cardiac output measured by the thermodilution method and that measured by the carbon dioxide rebreathing technique during laparoscopic surgery.
Carbon dioxide insufflation during laparoscopic surgery may interfere with the accuracy of the cardiac output value measured by the NICO2 system. The authors simultaneously measured cardiac output by the thermodilution method and by the carbon dioxide rebreathing technique during laparoscopic adrenalectomy in a patient with a nonfunctional adrenal tumor. There was a strong correlation between the cardiac output values measured by the two methods. This case report suggests that the carbon dioxide rebreathing technique can be used to monitor cardiac output during laparoscopic surgery.
Suzuki
Manzo
M
*Department of Anesthesiology, Second Hospital Nippon Medical School; †Department of Anesthesiology, Nippon Medical School, Kanagawa; and ‡Department of Urology, Ebina General Hospital, Japan.
Koda
Syusuke
S
Nakamura
Yoshihisa
Y
Kawamura
Naoki
N
Shimada
Yoichi
Y
D000368:Aged; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000008:administration & dosage; D002302:Cardiac Output; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D013815:Thermodilution
D002245:Carbon Dioxide