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A comparison of pulmonary and femoral artery thermodilution cardiac indices in paediatric intensive care patients
Author(s) -
McLuckie A,
Murdoch IA,
Marsh MJ,
Anderson D
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1996.tb14027.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary artery catheter , pulmonary artery , cardiac index , cardiology , femoral artery , cardiac output , intensive care , catheter , artery , hemodynamics , surgery , intensive care medicine
We have assessed the agreement between pulmonary artery and femoral artery (COLD) thermodilution measurements of the cardiac index (C1) in a group of paediatric intensive care patients. The COLD method gave consistently higher cardiac index values than the pulmonary artery catheter (PAC); however, the difference was small, with a mean value of 0.191/min −1 m −2 or 4.4% of the mean cardiac index. This difference is not clinically important and suggests that, under these circumstances. the COLD system provides an acceptable alternative to the pulmonary artery catheter for measurement of the cardiac index at the bedside.