Methodological Guidelines for Impedance Cardiography

Impedance Cardiography *

Objective: To evaluate the following: (1) the intramethod variability of impedance cardiography (ICG) cardiac output (CO) measurements via the latest generation monitor and thermodilution CO measurements (CO-TDs); (2) the intermethod comparison of ICG CO and CO-TD; and (3) comparisons of the intergeneration ICG CO equation to CO-TD, using the latest ICG CO equation, the ZMARC (CO-ICG), and the ...

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Impedance Cardiography Accurately

Objectives: After validation of impedance cardiography (ICG) in healthy children, this same device was tested in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) to validate its capability of measuring cardiac output (Q) in this population. Design: Comparative study of ICG vs the indirect Fick (C02) method. Setting: Tertiary care children's teaching hospital. Patients: Twenty-one CF children with mean FEVX o...

Impedance cardiography revisited.

UNLABELLED Previously reported comparisons between cardiac output (CO) results in patients with cardiac conditions measured by thoracic impedance cardiography (TIC) versus thermodilution (TD) reveal upper and lower limits of agreement with two standard deviations (2SD) of approximately +/-2.2 l min(-1), a 44% disparity between the two technologies. We show here that if the electrodes are placed...

Impedance Cardiography for Cardiac Output Estimation

everal studies suggest the importance of cardiac power output calculation, which is derived from cardiac output (CO) and mean blood pressure, to predict the prognosis in heart failure patients not only in hospital but also in the outpatient setting.1–3 CO measured by the thermodilution method with a Swan-Ganz catheter placed in the pulmonary artery has become one of the most widely accepted and...