Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Sandy Wong
PCCI, Philips Healthcare
Monitoring Cardiac Output ( Right Heart Method)
• Reject unsatisfactory
trials: use the Select Trial
pop-up key to move
between trials, then
select the Accept Reject
pop-up key to accept or
reject trials.
• Discard conspicuously
different values.
• The background of
rejected trials is red and
the background of
accepted trials is green.
• To close a measurement
series, you must save the
average values by
selecting the pop-up key
Save C.O..
• Things to note:
– Catheter constant : Make sure that the arterial catheter constant for the
measurement is appropriate to the catheter used.
– Computation Constant : Make sure that the computation constant for the
measurement is appropriate to the injectate volume, injectate temperature
and catheter type used. Check the packaging for the computation constant
code.
– During the C.O. measurement procedure, the blood temperature alarms are
inactive. This is indicated by a crossed-out alarm symbol next to the
temperature numeric. Making alarms inactive during this procedure prevents
false alarms. The alarms are automatically reactivated when you have
completed the measurement procedure.