Introduction Blood pressure measurements frequently guide management in critical care.
Direct readings, commonly from a major artery, are considered to be the gold standard …

Introduction Critically ill patients and patients undergoing high-risk and major surgery, are
instrumented with intra-arterial catheters and invasive blood pressure is considered the …

Background The accuracy of arterial lines (AL) using the flush test or stopcock test has not
been described in children, nor has the difference between invasive arterial blood pressure …

Introduction Monitoring of the cardiac output by continuous arterial pulse contour (CO
PiCCOpulse) analysis is a clinically validated procedure proved to be an alternative to the …

Introduction We compared the ability of two devices estimating cardiac output from arterial
pressure-curve analysis to track the changes in cardiac output measured with …

Objective To evaluate the relationships between the changes in stroke volumeindex (SVI),
measured in both the aorta and the pulmonary artery, and thechanges in intrathoracic blood …

Introduction To obtain strict glucose regulation, an accurate and feasible bedside glucometry
method is essential. We evaluated three different types of point-of-care glucometry in …

Introduction The aim of the study was to evaluate the ability of different static and dynamic
measurements of preload to predict fluid responsiveness in patients with spontaneous …

Introduction Correct bedside measurement of intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is important.
The bladder method is considered as the gold standard for indirect IAP measurement, but …

Background Maximal left ventricular (LV) pressure rise (LV dP/dt max), a classical marker of
LV systolic function, requires LV catheterization, thus surrogate arterial pressure waveform …