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Intrathoracic Blood Volume: Clinical Applications

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((YEARBOOK,volume 2006))

Conclusion

The state of the art of the preload condition, volemia and cardiac performance in critically ill patients is still under investigation. After several years of ‘filling pressures’, PAOP and CVP values should be limited only in well known clinical conditions. The ITBV, correlates well with the cardiac output and with the stroke volume, and provides the opportunity to evaluate the central blood volume. The integration of ITBV together with other hemodynamic data and organ perfusion parameters today offers a chance to better understand the volemic condition. This has been studied and demonstrated in cardiac surgical patients, in sepsis, in solid organ transplantation, in positioning changes, and in children. In all other fields more investigations should be done.

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Della Rocca, G., Costa, M.G. (2006). Intrathoracic Blood Volume: Clinical Applications. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33396-7_14

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