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Table 2 Available monitoring modalities stratified to unit-leading medical discipline

From: Practice of hemodynamic monitoring and management in German, Austrian, and Swiss intensive care units: the multicenter cross-sectional ICU-CardioMan Study

 

Anaesthesia

Surgery

Cardiac surgery

Medical

Neurology

Interdisciplinary

Others

n = 76 (%)

n = 12 (%)

n = 17 (%)

n = 14 (%)

n = 4 (%)

n = 28 (%)

n = 9 (%)

Invasive pressure monitoring

Invasive pressure monitoring

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

Automated PPV

39.5

41.7

41.2

42.9

50

35.7

22.2

Semi-invasive extended monitoring

Finger plethysmography

7.9

8.3

5.9

7.1

25

7.1

0

Bioimpedance

1.3

0

0

0

0

3.6

0

Esophageal Doppler

10.5

8.3

5.9

7.1

0

17.9

11.1

Echocardiography

Transthoracic

96.1

91.7

100

100

75

92.9

88.9

Transesophageal

90.8

58.3

94.1

100

50

75

88.9

Semi-invasive extended monitoring

Autocalibrated pulse contour analysis

51.3

25

43.8

35.7

0

21.4

55.6

Continuous ScvO2

28.9

33.3

37.5

35.7

0

25

55.6

Invasive extended hemodynamic monitoring

Transpulmonary thermodilution

96.1

75

81.3

92.9

75

82.1

88.9

Transpulmonary lithium dilution

6.6

0

0

7.1

0

3.6

0

Pulmonary artery thermodilution

80.3

58.3

100

92.9

25

53.6

77.8