Rev Assoc Med Bras
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Randomized Controlled Trial
[Comparison between two methods for hemodynamic measurement: thermodilution and oesophageal doppler].
Thermodilution (TD) is the "gold standard method" for hemodynamic monitoring. Some parameters can be measured by Oesophageal Doppler (OD), which is simpler and less invasive. To evaluate the accuracy of OD, we compared this method with TD in measurement of cardiac output (CO). ⋯ Homodynamic measurements with OD have the same accuracy as those with TD and were easily obtained in the 10 patients.