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      Measuring Cardiac Output in Critically III Patients: Disagreement between Thermodilution-, Calculated-, Expired Gas-, and Oxygen Consumption-Based Methods

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          Calculated values of oxygen consumption have been used to calculate a Fick cardiac output when thermodilution measurements are unreliable and when oxygen consumption measurements are unavailable. To determine the accuracy of these calculations, we measured cardiac output in 20 patients by four methods: (1) a reference Fick cardiac output calculated from metabolic oxygen consumption measurements and arterial-venous oxygen content difference (COmet); (2) thermodilution cardiac output (COtherm), (3) an estimated Fick cardiac output based on calculated oxygen consumption using standard equations (COcalc), and (4) an estimated Fick cardiac output using a bedside measurement of expired carbon dioxide production (COexp). The mean difference ± 95% limits of agreement between COtherm and COmet was 1.71 ± 5 liters/min. The mean difference between COcalc and COmet was -0.04 ± 3.33 liters/min. The mean difference between COexp and COmet was 0.31 ± 3.01 liters/min. On the basis of these wide confidence intervals, we conclude that (1) thermodilution and metabolic measurements of cardiac output frequently differ in critically ill patients, and (2) estimates of oxygen consumption, based on either standard equations or on expired carbon dioxide production measurements, are poor substitutes for metabolic measurements of oxygen consumption in critically ill subjects and may provide inaccurate estimates of cardiac output.

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          Journal
          CRD
          Cardiology
          10.1159/issn.0008-6312
          Cardiology
          S. Karger AG
          0008-6312
          1421-9751
          1997
          1997
          19 November 2008
          : 88
          : 1
          : 19-25
          Affiliations
          Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pa. USA
          Article
          177304 Cardiology 1997;88:19–25
          10.1159/000177304
          8960620
          369ff3c7-e288-4202-8f75-27c3072807c7
          © 1997 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          History
          : 22 January 1996
          : 05 January 1996
          Page count
          Pages: 7
          Categories
          Cardiac Catheterization

          General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
          Thermodilution,Cardiac output,Oxygen consumption,Sepsis,Fick

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