Cardiovascular monitoring in postoperative care of adult cardiac surgical patients

Abstract

One of the fundamental functions in each intensive care unit is monitoring, while we can consider respiratory monitoring, cardiovascular monitoring, and cerebral monitoring as the main three monitoring functions of ICU. Though, in the current world of increasing health technology, the sophisticated bedside examinations of the clinicians could not be replaced by any of these technologic improvements. On the other hand, continuous hemodynamic assessments after cardiac operations are the cornerstone of postoperative cardiac surgeries. The main cardiovascular monitoring methods involve-but are not confined to-the following pages, though more detailed explanations could be found in details in related texts. Noninvasive and invasive blood pressure, central venous and pulmonary artery pressure, cardiac output monitoring modalities, and the normal range for measured hemodynamic variables are among the main topics that the reader could be familiar with after reading this chapter.