title: Constant cardiac output monitoring using the PiCCO and LiDCO methods versus PAK in septic patients: when to do calibration?
abstract: The accuracy of cardiac output measurement by two most widely used methods of less invasive hemodynamic monitoring and by the standard technique of thermodilution with pulmonary catheter was assessed. The measurements were carried out in septic surgical patients immediately after and between system calibrations. Study results showed satisfactory compatibility of measurements performed by the two methods and by pulmonary catheter in both phases, thus system calibration being recommendable in hemodynamically unstable septic patients.
authors.affiliation: University Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Resuscitation, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia. mladen0906@gmail.com
authors.forename: Mladen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Siranović
authors.forename: Josip
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kovac
authors.forename: Aleksandar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gopcević
authors.forename: Mijo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kelecić
authors.forename: Marinko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vucić
authors.forename: Natasa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kovac
authors.forename: Bojan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rode
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D002302:Cardiac Output; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D018746:Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013815:Thermodilution