Publications by authors named "Rana Abualsaud"
Article Synopsis
- Many clinicians doubt the reliability of thermodilution (TD) for measuring cardiac output (CO) in patients with tricuspid regurgitation (TR), but this study aims to reassess that belief.
- A systematic review analyzed 1064 studies, ultimately using 4 for meta-analysis, and found that the presence of TR did not significantly impact the correlation between CO measurements from TD and the direct Fick (DF) method.
- The study concludes that TD's accuracy in measuring CO might not be significantly influenced by moderate-to-severe TR, but calls for further research due to the biases and variability in the included studies.
