Validation of Automated Cardiac Output Measurement

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgery; Cardiac Output, Low

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03372863

30112017

Details and patient eligibility

About

Automated software analysis now allows for quick estimation of cardiac output from the echocardiographic 5-chamber view. This study will validate the automated software method against pulmonary artery thermodilution and against conventional cardiac output measurement with echocardiography.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Postoperative cardiac surgery patient
• Pulmonary artery catheter in situ
• Extubated

Exclusion criteria

• No echocardiographic image available
• No consent
• Moderat-severe aortic insufficiency
• Moderat-severe tricuspid insufficiency
• Moderat-severe mitral valve insuffficiency
• Arythmia Intracardiac shunt Moderat-severe hemodynamic instability

Trial design

50 participants in 1 patient group

Cardiac surgery patients