1 Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne 92104, France 2Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Western Clinical School, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia 3Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 410 Lakeville Road, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA 4Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Dupuytren Teaching Hospi...

background: keeping the patient in a sitting or semi-sitting position for time-consuming oncoplastic breast surgery is a major challenge for anesthesiologists due to several considerations. this cohort study was conducted on two groups of patients undergoing breast surgery. methods: study participants were categorized into two groups: one group was composed of normotensive women (group a) and t...

Digital innovations are changing medicine, and hemodynamic monitoring will not be an exception. Five to ten years from now, we can envision a world where clinicians will learn hemodynamics with simulators and serious games, will monitor patients with wearable or implantable sensors in the hospital and after discharge, will use medical devices able to communicate and integrate the historical, cl...

BACKGROUND Cardiac Index (CI) is a key-parameter of hemodynamic monitoring. Indicator-dilution is considered as gold standard and can be obtained by pulmonary arterial catheter or transpulmonary thermodilution (TPTD; CItd). Furthermore, CI can be estimated by Pulse-Contour-Analysis (PCA) using arterial wave-form analysis (CIpc). Obviously, adjustment of CIpc to CItd initially improves the accur...

BACKGROUND Hemodynamic instability is frequent and outcome-relevant in critical illness. The understanding of complex hemodynamic disturbances and their monitoring and management plays an important role in treatment of intensive care patients. An increasing number of treatment recommendations and guidelines in intensive care medicine emphasize hemodynamic goals, which go beyond the measurement ...

Hemodynamic monitoring is the cornerstone of perioperative anesthetic monitoring. In the unconscious patient, hemodynamic monitoring not only provides information relating to cardiac output, volume status and ultimately tissue perfusion, but also indicates depth of anesthesia and adequacy of pain control. In the 21st century the anesthesiologist has an array of devices to choose from. No single...

This volume was written primarily for nurses in the intensive care unit. It was written by one of the more knowledgeable and successful nurses in critical care academia today. Ms Fawcett has the necessary breadth of physiological insight and years of technical experience, and an easy writing style to describe complex ideas and applications related to bedside hemodynamic monitoring to an excepti...

1Department of General Intensive Care, St George’s Hospital and Medical School, London SW17 0QT, UK 2Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, 21589 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 3Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange CA 92868, USA 4 Institute of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, T...