title: Applications of minimally invasive cardiac output monitors.
abstract: Because of the increasing age of the population, critical care and emergency medicine physicians have seen an increased number of critically ill patients over the last decade. Moreover, the trend of hospital closures in the United States t imposes a burden of increased efficiency. Hence, the identification of devices that facilitate accurate but rapid assessments of hemodynamic parameters without the added burden of invasiveness becomes tantamount. The purpose of this review is to understand the applications and limitations of these new technologies.
authors.affiliation: VA Western New York Healthcare System, Division of Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, USA. jahanpor@buffalo.edu.
authors.forename: Jahan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Porhomayon
authors.forename: Gino
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zadeii
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Congello
authors.forename: Nader D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Nader