Why the study?
Does continuous thermodilution provide clinically acceptable agreement with intermittent bolus thermodilution for cardiac output measurement in cardiac surgical patients?
Population
24 cardiac surgical patients
Comparison
Continuous thermodilution technique for cardiac… vs Conventional intermittent bolus thermodilution…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Intra-operative
Authors
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May support continuous thermodilution in cardiac surgery; leaves open need for randomized trials before routine adoption.
Does continuous thermodilution provide clinically acceptable agreement with intermittent bolus thermodilution for cardiac output measurement in cardiac surgical patients?
Continuous thermodilution provides clinically acceptable accuracy for cardiac output measurement compared to the intermittent bolus technique during cardiac surgery, particularly when using a 3-minute averaging mode.
Rödig et al. (1998) studied this question.
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