Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Transpulmonary thermodilution-derived cardiac function index identifies cardiac dysfunction in acute heart failure and septic patients: an observational study. | Available online http content 13 4 R133 Research Transpulmonary thermodilution-derived cardiac function index identifies cardiac dysfunction in acute heart failure and septic patients an observational study Simon Ritter1 Alain Rudiger2 and Marco Maggiorini2 Intensive Care Unit Department of Internal Medicine Triemli City Hospital Birmensdorferstrasse 497 CH-8063 Zurich Switzerland intensive Care Unit Department of Internal Medicine University Hospital Zurich Raemistrasse 100 CH-8091 Zurich Switzerland Corresponding author Alain Rudiger Received 5 May 2009 Revisions requested 4 Jun 2009 Revisions received 6 Jul 2009 Accepted 11 Aug 2009 Published 11 Aug 2009 Critical Care 2009 13 R133 doi cc7994 This article is online at http content 13 4 R133 2009 Ritter et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction There is limited clinical experience with the singleindicator transpulmonary thermodilution pulse contour cardiac output or PiCCO technique in critically ill medical patients particularly in those with acute heart failure AHF . Therefore we compared the cardiac function of patients with AHF or sepsis using the pulmonary artery catheter PAC and the PiCCO technology. Methods This retrospective observational study was conducted in the medical intensive care unit of a university hospital. Twelve patients with AHF and nine patients with severe sepsis or septic shock had four simultaneous hemodynamic measurements by PAC and PiCCO during a 24-hour observation period. Comparisons between groups were made with the use of the Mann-Whitney U test. Including all measurements correlations between data pairs were established using linear regression
