Table 1 What do we have and what can they do?
Equipment |
Central venous catheter (many companies) |
Pulmonary artery catheter and modifications (some companies) |
PiCCOII (Pulsion) |
LiDCOplus (LiDCO) |
NICO (Novametrix) |
Modelflow pulse contour analysis (BMI-TNO) |
Nexfin (Bmeye) |
Flotrac/Vigileo (Edwards Life Sciences) |
Pulse-dye densitometry PDD (Nihon Kohden) |
Bioimpedance cardiography (Aesculon, Osypka Medical) |
Hemosonic (Arrow) |
CardioQ (Deltex Medical) |
Ultrasonic cardiac output monitors (Uscom) |
Echocardiographs (some companies) |
Parameters |
Cardiac pressures and volumes |
Cardiac output, flow, velocity/time |
Dynamic indices |
Cardiac anatomy and regional function |
Oxygen-related variables |
Carbon dioxide-related variables |
Vascular diameters |