Intensive care medicine
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Intensive Care Med
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Intensive care medicine · Aug 2007
Editorial CommentICUs: from performance appraisal to executive dashboard?
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2007
Comparative StudyNoninvasive cardiac output monitoring (NICOM): a clinical validation.
To evaluate the clinical utility of a new device for continuous noninvasive cardiac output monitoring (NICOM) based on chest bio-reactance compared with cardiac output measured semi-continuously by thermodilution using a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC-CCO). ⋯ Cardiac output measured by NICOM had most often acceptable accuracy, precision, and responsiveness in a wide range of circulatory situations.