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由JBoldt著作·1994·被引用180次—Continuousmonitoringofcardiacoutputusingamodifiedpulmonaryarterycatheterwithaheatedfilamenthasproventobeaccurateandpreciseinthecritically ...

Objective: Evaluation of continuous cardiac output monitoring based on the thermodilution technique in the critically ill.

Design: Prospective clinical investigation.

Setting: A surgical intensive care unit of a university hospital.

Patients: Thirty-five critically ill patients (trauma and/or sepsis patients), who needed pulmonary artery catheterization. The patients were prospectively studied according to the following groups: a) patients with a heart rate of > 120 beats/min; b) those patients with a cardiac output of > 10 L/min; c) patients with a cardiac output of < 4.5 L/min; d) patients with a rectal temperature of > 39.0 degrees C; and e) patients with a pulmonary artery catheter inserted for > 4 days.

Interventions: Therapies were carried out according to modern intensive care medicine protocols by physicians who were not involved ...