Practicals · Critical Care Medicine · Cardiovascular system
Cardiac output measurement (invasive and minimally invasive, pulse contour)
- Type
- Procedure
- Curriculum level
- minimum 5 invasive + 5 minimally invasive (DrNB log book)
- Also called
- thermodilution, PiCCO, pulse contour analysis
Videos and resources
- VideoTranspulmonary thermodilution demonstration on PICCO device.5:13
- VideoPicco Monitoring5:02
- +66 more links
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Where the curriculum asks for it
“Cardiac output measurement” ( NBEMS DrNB curriculum, page 35)
“Invasive/Minimally invasive cardiac output” ( NBEMS DrNB curriculum, page 15)
“Pulse contour analysis inclusive” ( NBEMS DrNB curriculum, page 42)
“Measurement of cardiac output and derived haemodynamic variable” ( NMC DM/MCh guidelines, page 5)
“Cardiac output: Fick principle, thermodilution” ( NMC DM/MCh guidelines, page 9)
“Cardiac output monitor” ( NBEMS DrNB curriculum, page 16)