Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jul 2011
EditorialThe cardiac intensive care unit perspective on hemodynamic monitoring of oxygen transport balance.
The purpose of this consensus statement is to present the available evidence supporting the use of a variety of hemodynamic monitors in a pediatric population. Each article within this supplement and the presentations at the Eighth International Conference of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society provide the evidence to support recommendations for the use of each monitoring modality. The purpose of this editorial is to interpret the evidence provided elsewhere in this supplement from the perspective of cardiac critical care.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jul 2011
EditorialThe PICU perspective on monitoring hemodynamics and oxygen transport.
Alterations of hemodynamics and oxygen transport balance are very common scenarios in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and these alterations are as heterogeneous and diverse in nature as are the patient populations that typically exist in the PICU. Accordingly, the PICU perspective on monitoring of hemodynamics and oxygen transport balance in critically ill children must be understood in this context of heterogeneity and diversity. We provide an interpretation of the evidence supporting various monitoring strategies as presented in the The Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Evidence Based Review and Consensus Statement on Monitoring of Hemodynamics and Oxygen Transport Balance from a Pediatric Intensive Care perspective.