Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
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The PiCCO physiological monitor (Pulsion Medical Systems, Munich, Germany) was used for hemodynamic diagnosis and monitoring of 4 patients: a polytraumatized female patient with septic shock and ventilator-associated pneumonia; a man with congestive heart failure and cor pulmonale who developed acute heart failure while recovering from anterior resection of the rectum; a man with severe head injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome; and a polytraumatized male patient with a myocardial contusion. All were in a life-threatening situation, either immediately as in the case of the patient with myocardial contusion or eventually as in the patient with septic shock. ⋯ New less invasive monitoring systems designed to record parameters similar to those detected by the Swan-Ganz catheter but with fewer complications and risks have become available. One example, the PiCCO monitor, combines arterial thermodilution with analysis of the pulse waveform, providing a series of hemodynamic parameters useful for managing the critically ill patient.
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Mar 2004
[Effects of sevoflurane on mid-latency auditory evoked potentials and the 95% spectral frequency limit].
To investigate the effects of sevoflurane on mid-latency auditory evoked potentials (MLAEP) and compare them to changes in the encephalographic 95% spectral edge frequency (SEF95). ⋯ Our results indicate that the effect of sevoflurane on the MLEAP of Na, Pa and Nb is similar to that of other anesthetic gases. Even though the amplitude of the Na, Pa and Nb waves decreased in a dose-dependent way, SEF95 correlated more strongly with sevoflurane concentration.