Original insight into continuous cardiac output monitoring: "TruCCOMS". Correlation with other methods.

Aim: Of all technical devices used for continuous or intermittent monitoring of cardiac output, in our clinical practice during the last year, we tested a new system, the true continuoas cardiac output monitoring system (TruCCOMS), for the continuous real time measurement of cardiac output. The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy, reliability and promptness of TruCCOMS with other systems and methods of cardiac output (CO) measurement such as pulsion continuous cardiac output (PiCCO) and end diastolic Area (EDA) determination by trans-esophageal-echocar-diography (TEE), keeping as gold standard for CO measurement the thermodilution method by Swan-Ganz.

Methods: Sixteen male patients, aged 50 to 60 years, with ejection fraction (FE) >50%, EUROSCORE=1, who underwent CABG surgery with circulation extra corporeal (CEC), were analysed with all methods mentioned above.