Clinical evaluation of the FloTrac/VigileoTM system and two established continuous cardiac output monitoring devices in patients undergoing cardiac surgery??

摘要

Background Assessment of cardiac output (CO) by the FloTrac/Vigileo? system may offer a less invasive means of determining the CO than either the pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) or the PiCCOplus? system. The aim of this study was to compare CO measurements made using the FloTrac/Vigileo? system with upgraded software (FCO, Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine CA, USA), the PiCCOplus? system (PCO, Pulsion Medical Systems, Munich, Germany) and continuous CO monitoring using a PAC (CCO; Vigilance? monitoring, Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine CA, USA) with intermittent pulmonary artery thermodilution (ICO). The study was conducted in patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery.