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First measured intrathoracic blood volume in icu patients indicates the appropriateness of circulatory volume management

  • JASMINKA KOPIĆ1
  • IVAN MIRKOVIĆ1
  • IVAN LUČIĆ1
  • ASJA AJDINOVIĆ1
  • MATIJA JURJEVIĆ 1

1Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, «Dr. Josip Benčević» General Hospital

DOI: 10.22514/SV21.042007.4 Vol.2,Issue 1,April 2007 pp.18-20

Published: 20 April 2007

*Corresponding Author(s): JASMINKA KOPIĆ E-mail: jasminka.kopic@bolnicasb.hr

Abstract

Hemodynamic monitoring in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) settings is usually introduced when a patient becomes hemodynamically unstable. We analyzed how empirically guided volume management relates to first measured intrathoracic blood volume (ITBV), at the moment of the beginning of Puls Contour Cardiac Output (PiCCO) hemodynamic monitoring.

Data and measurements from 37 ICU patients, divided into four groups according to diagnosis of primary condition, were retrospectively studied. The first group consisted of polytrauma patients, second group of patients with pancreatitis and/or peritonitis, third group were postoperative patients, and fourth group were patients with various medical diagnosis: sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute lung failure (ALF), and acute heart failure (AHF). PiCCO monitor was introduced when the signs of hemodynamic instability were observed. First measured ITBV was recorded and analyzed according to deviation from reference values.

First measured ITBV was in reference range in 14 (37.8%) patients. Volume overloading was observed in 16 (43.2%) and hypovolemia in 7 (18.9%) patients.

The observed inappropriate blood volume in patients of all studied groups suggests that there is the need for defining indications and earlier application of hemodynamic monitoring, as well as reassessment of usual empirically guided infusion therapy in ICU setting.

Keywords

hemodynamic process, intensive care, hypovolemia, moni-toring 

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JASMINKA KOPIĆ,IVAN MIRKOVIĆ,IVAN LUČIĆ,ASJA AJDINOVIĆ,MATIJA JURJEVIĆ . First measured intrathoracic blood volume in icu patients indicates the appropriateness of circulatory volume management. Signa Vitae. 2007. 2(1);18-20.

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