Record Status This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment from a member of INAHTA. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database. Citation Mundy L, Merlin T, Braunack-Mayer A, Hiller J. USCOM: Ultrasound cardiac output monitor for patients requiring haemodynamic monitoring. Adelaide: Adelaide Health Technology Assessment (AHTA). 2007 Authors' conclusions In conclusion, the USCOM device is capable of measuring cardiac output in a non-invasive manner and appears to be accurate, rapid, well tolerated and relatively inexpensive when compared to the "gold standard" of pulmonary artery catheterisation. The main advantage of utilising the USCOM device to monitor CO is that, unlike PAC, patients do not need to be anaesthetised, which should increase the utility of the device and enable assessment of a wider patient population. No safety issues associated with the use of the device were reported. In addition, the device is highly portable and the learning curve for skills acquisition by clinicians is short. However, ideally the USCOM device should be further validated for patients with high and low cardiac output states. INAHTA brief and checklist Indexing Status Subject indexing assigned by CRD MeSH Cardiac Output; Hemodynamics; Monitoring, Physiologic /instrumentation /methods; Stroke Volume Language Published English Country of organisation Australia English summary An English language summary is available. Address for correspondence Department of Public Health, Mail Drop 511, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, AUSTRALIA, Tel: +61 8 8303 3575, Fax: +61 8 8223 4075 Email: tracy.merlin@adelaide.edu.au AccessionNumber 32007000185 Date bibliographic record published 15/04/2007 Date abstract record published 15/04/2007 |