Evaluation of NICOM (Bioreactance) for the Non-invasive Determination of Cardiac Output

Universitätsmedizin Mannheim

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Disease

Treatments: Device: NICOM cardiac output measurement; Device: Cardiac MRT cardiac output measurement

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02331329

NICOM

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cardiac output (CO) is an important parameter in the diagnosis and therapy of cardiac diseases. The current standard methods for the determination of CO, however, are either invasive (e.g. right heart catheterization) or technically expendable and expensive (magnetic resonance tomography, MRT). Therefore, the aim of the study at hand was to evaluate NICOM (bioreactance) as a new method for determinion of CO and to compare this new technique to MRT.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• indication for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Exclusion criteria

• pace maker
• patient unwilling to participate