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Hemodynamic
Monitoring
Editors
Michael R. Pinsky Jean-Louis Teboul
Critical Care Medicine Dept. Bicetre University Hospital
University of Pittsburgh Paris South University
Pittsburgh, PA Le Kremlin-Bicêtre
USA France
Jean-Louis Vincent
Department of Intensive Care
Erasme University Hospital
Brussels
Belgium
This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG
The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
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The editors wish to dedicate this volume to all our teachers who through hard work and
dedication mentored us through our careers, our colleagues who have been with us always on
this journey of shared patient care, and to our patients, for whose optimal care and comfort is
our never-ending goal.
Foreword
Critical illness often presents problems of such complexity that the bedside clinician is
forced to integrate information from many data streams into the management deci-
sion. As the ‘evidence-based’ investigational paradigm gained traction and eventual
dominance in medicine, initial hope was entertained by many intensivists that solid
evidence from trials, together with advanced imaging and the laboratory data, would
generate effective ‘rules’ to guide practice. In fact, well-designed and conducted clini-
cal trials (RCTs) do characterize general behaviors and may provide defensible starting
points for making some choices, especially if positive. To this point however, we have
been disappointed by RCT output; fundamentally, such problems are too imprecisely
defined, complicated, interactive, and labile to allow RCTs, ‘snapshot’ imaging, and
biomarkers – even considered together – to reliably direct the next best step for the
individual patient.
Effective life support needs a more ‘personalized’ approach that adheres to established
principles aimed at supporting the patient’s own efforts to recover homeostasis and
viability. Our decisions must remain flexible; within the physical boundaries of the
ICU, the principles of therapeutic challenge, frequent reassessment, continual re-eval-
uation, and timely mid-course correction remain fundamental elements of the inten-
sivist’s art. Moment-by-moment access to key information relevant to the patient’s
status is central to well-timed interventions. Successful management still depends
upon having a firm grasp of the physiology of critical illness, coupled with the ability
to expertly integrate and act upon monitored information from key indicators that
reflect cardiopulmonary functioning. A few foundational elements of critical care
physiology share precedence over the others, but none is more important than the
circulation.
This important volume, written by the foremost experts of our field and directed
toward bedside management, is a wide-ranging compendium of in-depth chapters that
address essential cardiovascular physiology as well as the pragmatics of diagnosing,
monitoring, and supporting the circulatory system. The mechanistic basis for clinical
decision making is emphasized throughout. Cardio-respiratory management of the
critically ill has advanced rather impressively in recent decades, and such progress is
clearly evident in the attention given to such up-to-date topics as bedside ultrasound,
assessment of the microcirculation and perfusion adequacy, advanced monitoring
options, and extracorporeal circulatory assistance and gas exchange. The chapters of
this book are not meant to be read sequentially from cover to cover (even though such
an exercise might prove highly rewarding), but rather to be accessed in a focused man-
ner as specific clinical issues arise in patient care or when knowledge gaps need to be
filled.
In this current exciting age of rapidly expanding knowledge of genetic and molecular
sciences, exhaustive statistical analyses, empirical evidence gathering, RCTs and meta-
analysis, it sometimes seems that our attention as practitioners has been diverted from
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Foreword
understanding the ‘why?’ to the ‘what and how’?. I congratulate the editors and authors
for addressing both in admirable fashion. It is refreshing and most welcome to see a
definitive work based upon the often neglected but invaluable middle ground of applied
pathophysiology. Mastery of physiology will always be needed to unravel our most dif-
ficult clinical challenges and remains the foundation of intelligent critical care.
John J. Marini
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, USA
Preface
An essential aspect of the care of the critically ill patient is to identify cardiovascular
insufficiency, treat it, and know when to stop over resuscitation while also attending to
the various other aspects of pathology that each patient brings to the clinical environ-
ment. No two patents are alike in their presentation of acute illness, response to therapy,
or potential for a good outcome from the treatment of disease and a minimal amount of
treatment-associated morbidities. Furthermore, most people, if they live long enough,
will experience some acute potentially life-taking process that if not treated correctly and
rapidly will result in death or morbidity before their time. These realities make the prac-
tice of critical care medicine one of the most demanding of all medical specialties, and
also one of its greatest attractions in the recruitment of dedicated and passionate bedside
clinicians.
Within this context, this volume has been crafted to systematically address all aspects of
hemodynamic monitoring-related cardiovascular diagnosis and management. Part I of
this volume addresses the essential aspects of the physiology and pathophysiology of
cardiovascular insufficiency. The authors of these eleven chapters are some of the leading
clinical investigators in the field with many years of bedside clinical experience and an
impressive publication record of clinical trials and basic science companion studies.
Although these chapters are arranged in a progressive sequence to supplement each
other, the reader can pick and choose specific chapters of interest based on their per-
ceived knowledge gaps or focused areas of interest.
Part II of this volume assumes the reader is cognizant of the underlying physiology and
pathophysiology and goes directly into their use in clinical assessment. Because once a
basic understanding of physiology is present, real-time knowledge of the patient allows
diagnosis to become personalized by addressing the unique aspects of each patient as
they face life-threatening disease processes. These five integrated chapters require an
understanding of the underlying physiology but then take that plane and elevate it to
clinical decision making and prognosis. This section in the volume represents a unique
series of chapters relative to other critical care medicine textbooks, and we hope its util-
ity to direct patient care will be innately obvious to the reader.
Part III addresses the specific measures made by various monitoring devices because at
the end of the day hemodynamic monitoring is monitoring with specific devices that
report specific information over time. Thus the focus on specific monitoring modality
and physiologic parameter discussed in these twelve chapters bring the physiology of
Part I and the pathophysiologic assessments in Part II into reality at the bedside.
Part IV addresses the very real question of what to do and why. Targeting specific thera-
peutic end points assumes that their achievement will reduce morbidity and mortality.
But what therapies to give and why? These questions are addressed in these three very
focused chapters.
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Preface
Finally, in Part V, patients usually fit into broad groupings of acute illness based on the
fundamental pathophysiologic processes that initiated their instability. Acute heart fail-
ure, septic shock, ARDS, neurologic emergencies, postoperative problems, and recently
the need for extracorporeal support. They reflect the present-day disease state/processes
commonly seen in the intensive care unit. These chapters serve to solidify the prior chap-
ters into a complete set, leaving the bedside clinician with insight and hopeful perspec-
tive as to what to expect, to monitor, and how to apply that monitoring.
The editors are profoundly grateful to the authors of this book for their excellent contri-
butions and knowledge base that made these chapters what they are; the senior editors of
the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, who oversaw the creation of this book
within their series; and the publisher, Springer, for their support and dedication to this
very important and clinically relevant opus.
Michael R. Pinsky
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Jean-Louis Teboul
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Jean-Louis Vincent
Brussels, Belgium
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Contents
I Physiology and P
athophysiology
1 Introduction to “Hemodynamic Monitoring”............................................................... 3
Jukka Takala
6 Pulmonary Circulation................................................................................................................. 49
Marco Maggiorini
9 Oxygen Delivery.............................................................................................................................. 81
Eleonora Duscio, Francesco Vasques, Federica Romitti, Francesco Cipulli,
and Luciano Gattinoni
10 Mitochondrial Function.............................................................................................................. 97
Mervyn Singer
15 SvO2/ScvO2.......................................................................................................................................... 157
Zsolt Molnar and Marton Nemeth
17 Lactate.................................................................................................................................................... 191
Ricardo Castro, David Carpio, and Glenn Hernández