scholarly journals The initial distribution volume of glucose and cardiac output in the critically ill

1993 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironori Ishihara ◽  
Yuki Shimodate ◽  
Hiroaki Koh ◽  
Ken-ichi Isozaki ◽  
Toshihito Tsubo ◽  
...  
1994 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Shimodate ◽  
Hironori Ishihara ◽  
Akitomo Matsuki

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 1441-1448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironori Ishihara ◽  
Akiko Suzuki ◽  
Hirobumi Okawa ◽  
Ichiro Sakai ◽  
Toshihito Tsubo ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Toshinori Kasai ◽  
Eiji Hashiba ◽  
Junichi Saito ◽  
Kazuyoshi Hirota

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junichi Saito ◽  
Hironori Ishihara ◽  
Eiji Hashiba ◽  
Hirobumi Okawa ◽  
Tomoyuki Kudo ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Marieke Voet ◽  
Christiaan G. Overduin ◽  
Ernst L. Stille ◽  
Jurgen J. Fütterer ◽  
Joris Lemson

AbstractThermodilution cardiac output monitoring, using a thermistor-tipped intravascular catheter, is used in critically ill patients to guide hemodynamic therapy. Often, these patients also need magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for diagnostic or prognostic reasons. As thermodilution catheters contain metal, they are considered MRI-unsafe and advised to be removed prior to investigation. However, removal and replacement of the catheter carries risks of bleeding, perforation and infection. This research is an in vitro safety assessment of the PiCCO™ thermodilution catheter during 3 T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (3T-MRI).  In a 3T-MRI environment, three different PiCCO™ catheter sizes were investigated in an agarose-gel, tissue mimicking phantom. Two temperature probes measured radiofrequency-induced heating; one at the catheter tip and one at a reference point. Magnetically induced catheter dislocation was assessed by visual observation as well as by analysis of the tomographic images. For all tested catheters, the highest measured temperature increase was 0.2 °C at the center of the bore and 0.3 °C under “worst-case” setting for the tested MRI pulse sequences. No magnetically induced catheter displacements were observed. Under the tested circumstances, no heating or dislocation of the PiCCO™ catheter was observed in a tissue mimicking phantom during 3T-MRI. Leaving the catheter in the critically ill patient during MRI investigation might pose a lower risk of complications than catheter removal and replacement.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert Koster ◽  
Thomas Kaufmann ◽  
Bart Hiemstra ◽  
Renske Wiersema ◽  
Madelon E. Vos ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Critical care ultrasonography (CCUS) is increasingly applied also in the intensive care unit (ICU) and performed by non-experts, including even medical students. There is limited data on the training efforts necessary for novices to attain images of sufficient quality. There is no data on medical students performing CCUS for the measurement of cardiac output (CO), a hemodynamic variable of importance for daily critical care. Objective The aim of this study was to explore the agreement of cardiac output measurements as well as the quality of images obtained by medical students in critically ill patients compared to the measurements obtained by experts in these images. Methods In a prospective observational cohort study, all acutely admitted adults with an expected ICU stay over 24 h were included. CCUS was performed by students within 24 h of admission. CCUS included the images required to measure the CO, i.e., the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) diameter and the velocity time integral (VTI) in the LVOT. Echocardiography experts were involved in the evaluation of the quality of images obtained and the quality of the CO measurements. Results There was an opportunity for a CCUS attempt in 1155 of the 1212 eligible patients (95%) and in 1075 of the 1212 patients (89%) CCUS examination was performed by medical students. In 871 out of 1075 patients (81%) medical students measured CO. Experts measured CO in 783 patients (73%). In 760 patients (71%) CO was measured by both which allowed for comparison; bias of CO was 0.0 L min−1 with limits of agreement of − 2.6 L min−1 to 2.7 L min−1. The percentage error was 50%, reflecting poor agreement of the CO measurement by students compared with the experts CO measurement. Conclusions Medical students seem capable of obtaining sufficient quality CCUS images for CO measurement in the majority of critically ill patients. Measurements of CO by medical students, however, had poor agreement with expert measurements. Experts remain indispensable for reliable CO measurements. Trial registration Clinicaltrials.gov; http://www.clinicaltrials.gov; registration number NCT02912624


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