The Comparison of Cardiac Outputs between Impedance Cardiography and Thermobilution Technique

임피던스 카디오그래피와 열희석법에 의한 심박출량의 비교

The purpose of this study was to prove the accuracy of impedance cardiography by measuring cardiac outputs of patients simultaneously by thermodilution method, and impedance cardiography developed in our department. The subjects were eight patients with mitral stenosis admitted to the cathete rization laboratory in Severance Hospital. The correlation coefficient was 0.895, which is thought quite high considering the fact that accuracy of cardiac outputs of patients with valvular diseases measured by both methods was known to be low.