Advanced hemodynamic monitoring is necessary for many patients with acute brain and/or spinal cord injury. Optimizing cerebral and systemic physiology requires multi-organ system function monitoring. Hemodynamic manipulations are cardinal among interventions to regulate cerebral perfusion pressure and cerebral blood flow. The pulmonary artery catheter is not any more the sole tool available; le...

Hemodynamic monitoring is a diagnostic tool. Because hemodynamic monitoring often requires invasive procedures, it can be associated with an increased incidence of untoward events. Like any diagnostic tool, its ability to improve outcome will be primarily related to the survival benefit enjoyed by specific therapies that can only be given without complications based on their use. Presently, few...

Hemodynamic monitoring offers valuable information on cardiovascular performance in the critically ill, and has become a fundamental tool in the diagnostic approach and in the therapy guidance of those patients presenting with tissue hypoperfusion. From introduction of the pulmonary artery catheter to the latest less invasive technologies, hemodynamic monitoring has been surrounded by many ques...

In this Emerging Technology Review, a novel, wireless, wearable Doppler ultrasound patch is described as tool for resuscitation. The device designed, foremost, functional hemodynamic monitor—a simple, fast, and consistent method measuring change with preload variation. More generally, monitoring paradigm that helps predict stroke volume response to additional intravenous volume. Because of the ...

© 2017 International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow The continued search for the ideal hemodynamic monitoring tool continues. Over time, the medical community has endeavored to identify correlates of hemodynamic status and resultant responses to volume expansion. Historically, we have pursued the use of physical examination alone (jugular he...