Cardiac output measurement

Publication date: Available online 29 January 2016 Source:Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine Author(s): Michael Gilbert Cardiac output measurement is used to guide fluid and inotropic drug therapy. Techniques employ modelling of the circulation to derive estimates of cardiac output from readily measured variables, including thermodilution, analysis of arterial pressure waveforms, Doppler measurements of blood flow velocity, and electrical bioimpedance.
Source: Anaesthesia and intensive care medicine - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research