Transplantation proceedings
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Comparative Study
Cardiac output by femoral arterial thermodilution-calibrated pulse contour analysis during liver transplantation: comparison with pulmonary artery thermodilution.
The continuous monitoring of the cardiac output during liver transplantation (LT) is an essential part of the intraoperative management of the patient's hemodynamics. To verify the accuracy of a new method based on femoral artery thermodilution-calibrated pulse contour analysis (PCCO) during LT, we compared the technique with the results of an intermittent pulmonary artery thermodilution method (ICO). ⋯ The pulse contour analysis was found to be an unsatisfactory substitute for intermittent thermodilution measurement of cardiac output during the LT.