The transpulmonary thermodilution technique (TPTD) is a safe, multi-parametric advanced
cardiopulmonary monitoring technique that provides important parameters required for …

Objectives: To summarize the physiologic principles underlying the hemodynamic
monitoring using the PiCCO device (Pulsion, Munich, Germany) incorporating the …

Objectives: To compare the extravascular lung water index and other markers of disease
severity in patients with acute lung injury vs. patients at risk for development of acute lung …

Exercise testing plays an increasingly important role in the diagnosis and assessment of
heart disease and lung disease in children and adolescents. In Cardiopulmonary Exercise …

Background We tested the effect of different blood flow levels in the extracorporeal circuit on
the measurements of cardiac stroke volume (SV), global end-diastolic volume index (GEDVI) …

Background Hemodynamic monitoring is very important in critically ill patients with shock or
acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The PiCCO (Pulse index Contour Continuous …

Tissue edema, in particular pulmonary edema, increasingly is recognized as a perioperative
complication affecting outcome. Management strategies directed at avoiding excessive fluid …

Background This study aimed to assess whether a management algorithm using data
obtained with a PiCCO system can improve clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with …

In severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), veno-venous extracorporeal
membrane oxygenation (VV ECMO) has been proposed as a therapeutic strategy to …

Background Cardiac output (CO) monitoring remains complex in newborns as most of the
current technologies fail to accurately measure systemic blood flow in the presence of …