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01-02-2004 | Poster presentation
The repeatability of transpulmonary thermodilution measurements
Authors:
S Wolf, D Plev, L Schürer, C Lumenta
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2004
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Excerpt
Recently, less invasive cardiovascular monitoring with transpulmonary thermodilution with the PiCCO system using a central venous line and an arterial thermodilution catheter got increasingly popular. In the last issue of the
Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, the opinion was stated that a single cold saline injection is sufficient to adequately measure cardiac output and derived thermodilution parameters [
1]. Since there are no reported investigations in the literature on the subject, we wanted to examine this hypothesis. …