A Prospective Randomized Trial Comparing Stroke Volume Measurements by Esophageal Doppler and Pulse-Contour Analysis During a Fluid Resuscitation Protocol in Brain-Dead Organ Donors

Maximizing stroke volume (SV) is the optimal method of fluid resuscitation. Both the esophageal doppler (EDM) and pulse contour analysis (PCA) are validated methods of measuring SV in critical patients, but neither have not been well-studied in the brain-dead (BD) donor. We have previously published our fluid resuscitation protocol in BD donors demonstrating a significant reduction in time on vasopressors from 16 hours in the control group to 2.9 hours in the protocol group. We performed a prospective randomized trial comparing the effectiveness of the EDM and PCA in this fluid resuscitation protocol in BD donors.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: (1061) Source Type: research