• Intensive care medicine · May 1994

    Monitoring of right ventricular function using a conventional slow response thermistor catheter.

    • M Lichtwarck-Aschoff, S Leucht, H W Kisch, G Zimmermann, G Blümel, and U J Pfeiffer.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine, Zentralklinikum Augsburg, Germany.
    • Intensive Care Med. 1994 May 1;20(5):348-53.

    ObjectiveTo investigate whether determination of right ventricular end-diastolic volume (RVEDV) and right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) can be performed with reasonable accuracy and reproducibility using a conventional slow response thermistor pulmonary artery catheter (CPAC) applying an adaptive algorithm.DesignTo study RVEDV and RVEF simultaneously with pulmonary artery catheters equipped with slow and fast response thermistors (FRPAC) under a broad range of cardiac output.SettingLaboratory of Institute of Experimental Surgery, Technical University.Animals11 anaesthetised piglets.InterventionsHypovolemia (V-) was induced by withdrawal of blood up to 50 ml/kg, hypervolemia (V+) was produced by retransfusing blood and adding up to 30 mg/kg hydroxyethyl starch. In 5 animals in phases V- and V+ beta-adrenergic stimulation was achieved with dobutamine. Finally pulmonary artery hypertension was induced by infusion of small air bubbles.Measurements And ResultsCardiac output (CO), RVEDV and RVEF were determined simultaneously with FRPAC and CPAC placed in the same pulmonary artery branch. Measurements were repeated 8 times sequentially in steady state normovolemia. A total of 130 measurements could be analysed. The coefficient of variation was 6.7 +/- 4.2% for CO(FRPAC) and 4.6 +/- 1.7% for CO(CPAC); for RVEF it was 9.7 +/- 6.2% (FRPAC) and 9.9 +/- 3.9% (CPAC); for RVEDV it was 11.6 +/- 4.8% (FRPAC) and 8.54 +/- 3.2 (CPAC). Mean difference (bias) was 0.06 +/- 0.39 l/min for CO measured with both methods, 19 +/- 35 ml for RVEDV and -3.3 +/- 6.5% for RVEF. CO(CPAC) displayed a strong correlation to CO(FRPAC) (R = 0.97, p = 0.001) as well as RVEF (R for RVEF(CPAC) versus RVEF(FRPAC) = 0.90, p = 0.001). R for RVEDV(CPAC) versus RVEDV(FRPAC) was 0.67, p = 0.001. We conclude that this animal study demonstrates good agreement between RVEF and RVEDV obtained with catheters equipped with a fast response thermistor or with a conventional slow response thermistor allowing accurate monitoring of right ventricular function with a conventional pulmonary artery catheter.

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