Search Tag: Haemodynamic monitoring
Imaging the Critically Ill Patient: Echocardiography
2022 08 Dec
Current applications and limitations of critical care echocardiography in the critical care context and its use in guiding the care of the critically ill patient. Echocardiography in the ICU Echocardiography is currently considered an essential diagnostic tool at the disposal of the intensivist – a significant change from less than two decades... Read more
While Perioperative Care is Optimised, Patients Die Unmonitored in the Ward!
2021 19 Apr
P atients and their families often fear surgical interventions due to possible complications during the procedure and falsely assume to have survived the most dangerous part when reaching post-anesthetic care units. 1 However, postoperative hypotension more often occurs in the wards, causing myocardial infarction and death, 3,4 as it... Read more
The Future ICU
2020 15 Jan
Critical Care Medicine has existed for many years, but was only recognised as a specialty in the last 40 years or so. However, during this time, there has been a tremendous amount of change. Over the years, our understanding of different critical illnesses has improved, and our treatment strategies have become more effective. Technology has also played... Read more
The Future of Haemodynamic Monitoring: From Planet Mars to Resource Limited Countries
2020 15 Jan
When envisioning the future of haemodynamic monitoring, we cannot limit the discussion to new sensors and computer innovations. We also need to consider the accessibility to scientific and technological progress, particularly in resource-limited countries where a large number of patients deserve more rational haemodynamic management. The... Read more
Noninvasive technologies for personalised haemodynamic monitoring
2019 14 Mar
Advanced haemodynamic monitoring methods Bernd Saugel, MD, EDIC is a Professor of Anesthesiology and works as a consultant in the Department of Anesthesiology, Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. Prof. Saugel is a specialist in anaesthesiology, intensive care medicine,... Read more
Advances in monitoring expired CO2 in critically ill patients
2019 24 Jan
Reviews the potential uses and pitfalls of capnography in critically ill patients, especially for haemodynamic and respiratory monitoring. Expired CO 2 can be easily monitored in the intensive care unit (ICU), especially in patients under invasive mechanical ventilation, using infrared measurement by sampling mainstream expiratory flow... Read more
How can a smartphone be used for haemodynamic monitoring?
2018 28 Nov
The parameters of the Capstesia app are described. After taking a photo of the arterial waveform on the monitor screen, and cropping it to the signal of interest, the picture is sent to the Capstesia server via a mobile Internet connection. The heart rate and systolic and diastolic arterial pressures are manually entered into the app to determine... Read more
BP monitoring that suits the needs of patients
2018 30 Jan
Both hypotension and hypertension can potentially impair the function of vital organs such as heart, brain, or kidneys, thus monitoring of arterial blood pressure (BP) is a mainstay of haemodynamic monitoring in acutely or critically ill patients. Arterial BP can either be obtained invasively via an arterial catheter or noninvasively. While intermittent... Read more