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Pediatric Cardiovascular Monitoring

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Continuous monitoring during anesthesia gives the practitioner information on physiologic changes that may require an intervention. The monitors do not make these interventions, and interpretation and action of the practitioner are still required to affect outcome and minimize adverse events. The focus of this chapter is to discuss both the noninvasive and invasive cardiac monitors that are used in cardiac surgery, risks in their placement, and the information that can be obtained from them.

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    The LIDCO monitor uses lithium dilution and can be done via a peripheral line.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital and Medical Center, Lexington, KY, United States

    Christopher Denny

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Pediatric Cardiovascular Anesthesia, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    David F. Vener

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  3. UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Divisions of Congenital Cardiac Anesthesiology Adult Cardiac Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology, The University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA Health System, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Denny, C., Vener, D.F. (2023). Pediatric Cardiovascular Monitoring. In: Dabbagh, A., Hernandez Conte, A., Lubin, L.N. (eds) Congenital Heart Disease in Pediatric and Adult Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10442-8_9

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