cardiac output assessment
- related: Cardiology and Hemodynamics
- tags: #literature #cardiology
- Fick is gold standard but metabolic cart is hard to get into ICU and can be erroneous
- ICU: thermodilution usually used
- thermodilution calculates cardiac output
- bioimpedance/bioreactance and end tidal CO2 are newer assessments1
- use minute distance for cardiac output2