Journal of clinical monitoring and computing
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J Clin Monit Comput · Apr 2008
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyMulticenter evaluation of noninvasive cardiac output measurement by bioreactance technique.
Bioreactance, the analysis of intrabeat variations in phase of a transthoracic voltage in response to an applied high frequency transthoracic current, was recently introduced for noninvasive cardiac output measurement (NICOM). We evaluated NICOM compared to thermo- dilution (TD) in several clinical settings. ⋯ On average, compared to TD, bioreactance- based NICOM has acceptable accuracy in challenging clinical environments. Availability of such a tool may allow clinicians to have information about CO in patients where this information is not currently available to help diagnosis and guide therapy.