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University Hospital, Mannheim

Noninvasive method is accurate for measuring stroke volume and cardiac output

Published in Telemedicine Business Week, September 14th, 2005

A recent report provides a comparison of impedance cardiography and thermodilution-derived measurements of stroke volume and cardiac output at rest and during exercise testing.

Scientists in Germany report, "Noninvasive evaluation of hemodynamic variables remains a preferable and attractive option in both pharmacologic research and clinical cardiology. The objective of [our] study was to evaluate the correlation, feasibility and diagnostic value of hemodynamic measurements by ICG with the thermodilution (TD) method at rest and during exercise testing."

A. Scherhag and colleagues of University Hospital in Mannheim explained, "We measured stroke volume...

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