Pierre Squara

TL;DR: Cardiac output measured by NICOM had most often acceptable accuracy, precision, and responsiveness in a wide range of circulatory situations.

TL;DR: The advantages and limits of using continuous, real-time, minimally or totally non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring techniques with an emphasis on their respective place in the hemodynamic management of critically ill patients with hemodynamic instability are discussed.

TL;DR: Compared to TD, bioreactance- based NICOM has acceptable accuracy in challenging clinical environments and in subsets of patients, NICOM was shown to be better corre- lated with TD-CO than CO obtained with the Fick method or with standard bioimpedance-based measurements of CO.

TL;DR: Among patients with low ejection fraction who were undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting with cardiopulmonary bypass, levosimendan compared with placebo did not result in a significant difference in the composite end point of prolonged catecholamine infusion, use of left ventricular mechanical assist device, or renal replacement therapy.

TL;DR: This study showed that the NICOM and Vigileo devices have similar monitoring capabilities in post-operative cardiac surgery patients.