Monitoring organ function. Heart, liver, and kidney.

V H Gracias, M D McGonigal

Journal: The Surgical clinics of North America 2000;80(3):911-9, x

PMID: 10897269

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Abstract

No other part of critical care evaluation is more challenging than the monitoring of end-organ function. Defining the endpoints of resuscitation using organ function is complex and controversial. Although replete with opinions and data, the observation of cardiac, renal, and hepatic function and the technical ability to categorize organ performance is crucial to providing adequate intensive care resuscitation and monitoring.

Address: Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

DOI: 10.1016/s0039-6109(05)70104-3

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MeSH Terms: Catheterization, Swan-Ganz, Creatinine, Critical Care, Echocardiography, Electrocardiography, Ambulatory, Heart, Humans, Kidney, Liver, Liver Failure, Monitoring, Physiologic, Resuscitation, Sodium, Wounds and Injuries