RIGHT VENTRICULAR VOLUMES BY THERMODILUTION IN THE ADULT RESPIRATORY-DISTRESS SYNDROME - A COMPARATIVE-STUDY USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AS A REFERENCE METHOD
RIGHT VENTRICULAR VOLUMES BY THERMODILUTION IN THE ADULT RESPIRATORY-DISTRESS SYNDROME - A COMPARATIVE-STUDY USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AS A REFERENCE METHOD
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DOI:
10.1378/chest.88.1.34
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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影响因子:
9.6
通讯作者:
BOURDARIAS, JP
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JARDIN, F;GUERET, P;BOURDARIAS, JP
Measurements of right ventricular ejection fraction and volumes were obtained at bedside by the thermodilution method performed with a fast-response balloon-tipped thermistor in a group of 18 patients undergoing respiratory therapy for the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). These measurements were compared with right ventricular dimensions simultaneously obtained with 2-dimensional echocardiography. A significantly correlation was found between right ventricular ejection fraction by thermodilution and 2-dimensional echocardiographic fractional area contraction (r = 0.74; P < 0.001), between right ventricular end-diastolic volume by thermodilution and 2-dimensional echocardiographic end-diastolic area (r = 0.70; P < 0.001), and between right ventricular end-systolic volume by thermodilution and 2-dimensional echocardiographic end-systolic area (r = 0.78; P < 0.001). Right ventricular end-diastolic pressure, a commonly used index of right ventricular preload, did not correlate with 2-dimensional echocardiographic end-diastolic area. The thermodilution method allowed reliable measurements of right ventricular ejection fraction and volumes at bedside in critically ill patients. Appraisal of right ventricular end-diastolic volume by this method appeared to be a better predictor of right ventricular preload than were the measurments of pressure.