Journal of clinical monitoring and computing
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J Clin Monit Comput · Apr 2012
Comparative StudyArterial pressure waveform derived cardiac output FloTrac/Vigileo system (third generation software): comparison of two monitoring sites with the thermodilution cardiac output.
The present study was conducted to study the effect of monitoring site, radial or femoral, for arterial pressure waveform derived cardiac output using FloTrac/Vigileo system with third generation software version 3.02 during cardiac surgery. The cardiac output derived from the two sites was also compared to the pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) derived cardiac output to reevaluate the relation between them using the newer software. The effect of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) was also studied by doing the sub analysis before and after bypass. ⋯ The post CPB precision of FEMCO was 1.2 times of PACCO while that of RADCO was 1.7 times of PACCO. The third generation of FloTrac/Vigileo system shows good correlation between the radial and femoral derived cardiac outputs in both pre and post bypass periods. The newer software correlates better to PAC derived cardiac output in the post bypass period for femoral artery than radial artery.