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01-10-2016 | Commentary
Innovative noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring: curb your enthusiasm after initial validation studies and evaluate the technologies’ clinical applicability
Authors:
Bernd Saugel, Julia Y. Wagner
Published in:
Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
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Issue 5/2016
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Excerpt
The continuous monitoring of cardiovascular function seems reasonable in hemodynamically unstable patients. This holds true for a variety of clinical settings in both critically ill patients treated in the intensive care unit and patients undergoing major surgery under general anesthesia. Therefore, advanced hemodynamic monitoring—including the assessment of stroke volume and thus cardiac output—in addition to arterial pressure might be indicated in these settings [
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