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Systemic arterial waveform analysis and assessment of blood flow during extracorporeal circulation

Department of Critical Care and Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, m.romano{at}dac.unifi.it

Sabino Scolletta

Department of Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Iacopo Olivotto

Department of Critical Care and Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Bonizella Biagioli

Department of Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Gian Franco Gensini

Department of Critical Care and Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Marco Chiostri

Department of Critical Care and Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Pierpaolo Giomarelli

Department of Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Background: The pressure recording analytical method (PRAM) is a method for real-time beat-to-beat quantification of peripheral blood flow based on the analysis of arterial waveform morphology. Since PRAM can be implemented in any conditions of flow, whether physiological or artificial, we assessed its accuracy in patients undergoing cardiac surgery during extracorporeal circulation (ECC), using the roller-pump device as the reference gold standard.

Methods: We prospectively studied 32 patients undergoing elective coronary surgery. Flow values obtained by PRAM from the radial artery were compared with simultaneous values by thermodilution in physiological conditions of flow and with the roller-pump device readings during ECC.

Results: Before and after ECC, the overall estimates of flow measured by PRAM closely agreed with thermodilution (mean difference 0.07±0.40 L/min). During ECC, PRAM estimates of flow also closely correlated with simultaneous pump readings (mean difference 0.11±0.33 L/min). At time of weaning from ECC, two patterns of hemodynamic adaptation were documented by PRAM following resumption of cardiac contraction: in most patients (n = 26; 80%), cardiac output (CO) was stable (reduction 10% compared to the steady ECC phase); six patients (20%) showed a fall in CO exceeding 10% and up to 38%.

Conclusions: PRAM provided accurate, continuous quantification of peripheral blood flow during each phase of cardiac surgery, including ECC, and allowed early recognition of patients with low CO during weaning from the pump.

Perfusion, Vol. 21, No. 2, 109-116 (2006)
DOI: 10.1191/0267659106pf857oa


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