cardiac output assessment

  • related: Cardiology
  • 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

Footnotes

  1. CHEST Board Review Critical Care?