2. Introduction
• Critically ill patients require continuos assessment of their
cardiovascular system to diagnose and manage their complex
medical conditions.
• This is most commonly achieved by the use of direct
pressure monitoring systems,often refered to as
hemodynamic monitoring.
• Heart function is the main focus of hemodynamic studies.
• Hemodynamic pressure monitoring provides information
about blood volume , fluid balance and how well the heart
is pumping
3. Monitoring system component
• 1-biological variable
• 2-Sensor
• 3-Integrator( static and dynamic caliberation)
• 4-Out put( displaying the information in waves
and digital form)
8. Zeroing and leveling
• Zeroing is done by exposing the transducer to
atmospheric pressure and calibrating the
pressure reading to zero
Is any relation between zeroing and
leveling???
22. Answer
• . A monitoring system with too low a
frequency response (over-dampened and a
depressed waveform) or a high frequency
response (under-dampened and a rather
vibrant waveform) will result in
underestimation or overestimation,
respectively, of the arterial pulse pressure
without altering the accuracy of reporting the
mean arterial pressure (MAP)
28. Derived parameters of the arterial
wave forms
• It is created by this pulse pressure profile.
These include estimates of left ventricular
stroke volume (SV), CO, vascular resistance,
and during positive-pressure breathing, SV
variation, and pulse pressure variation
29. • By this pulse pressure profile. These include
estimates of left ventricular stroke volume
(SV), CO, vascular resistance, and during
positive-pressure breathing, SV variation, and
pulse pressure variation (PPV)
31. Central arterial compliance
• Older the person lesser the arterial
compliance; greater pulse pressure
• Younger the person more the arterial
compliance; lessar pulse pressure
32. Peripheral vascular resistance
• When SV is stable and/or fixed, changes in
vascular resistance will manifest as changes in the
downslope of the arterial waveform. If the
arterial waveform downstroke sharply decreases,
as often is the case with vasodilator therapy or
sepsis, there is little resistance to blood flow.
• If the downstroke of the arterial waveform is
rather shallow, as is often in the case of severe
heart failure, then this indicates a higher
resistance
33. Hypovolumia
• . Hypovolemia will cause a large increase in
the variation of both systolic pressure and
pulse pressure compared to normovolemic
states.
• Large systolic pressure or PPVs are correlated
with lower amounts of intrathoracic blood
volume and ventricular filling pressures