Comparison between FlowTrac and Pulmonary Arterial Catheter in Off-Pump Cardiac Surgery Patients: "Why Did We Miss Our Appointment?". Comment on Oh et al. Comparison between Fourth-Generation FloTrac/Vigileo System and Continuous Thermodilution Technique for Cardiac Output Estimation after Time Adjustment during Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study. J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11, 6093

Luigi Vetrugno; Federico Barbariol; Cristian Deana

doi:10.3390/jcm12062343

Comparison between FlowTrac and Pulmonary Arterial Catheter in Off-Pump Cardiac Surgery Patients: "Why Did We Miss Our Appointment?". Comment on Oh et al. Comparison between Fourth-Generation FloTrac/Vigileo System and Continuous Thermodilution Technique for Cardiac Output Estimation after Time Adjustment during Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study. J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11, 6093

J Clin Med. 2023 Mar 17;12(6):2343. doi: 10.3390/jcm12062343.

Authors

Luigi Vetrugno^{1

2}, Federico Barbariol³, Cristian Deana³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Emergency, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Via Dei Vestini 33, 66100 Chieti, Italy.
³ Anesthesia and Intensive Care 1, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Health Integrated Agency of Friuli Centrale, 33100 Udine, Italy.

Abstract

We read with great interest the study by Chahyun Oh et al., which compared estimates of cardiac output (CO) provided by the FloTrac system (CO-FloTrac) with those obtained with continuous thermodilution (COcont) after time adjustments using continuous recordings of intraoperative physiological datal [...].