Pulse Wave Analysis to Estimate Cardiac Output

Authors and Disclosures

Karim Kouz, M.D., Thomas W. L. Scheeren, M.D., Daniel de Backer, M.D. and Bernd Saugel, M.D.

Department of Anesthesiology, Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany (K.K., B.S.); the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands (T.W.L.S.); the Department of Intensive Care, CHIREC Hospitals, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (D.d.B.); and the Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland, Ohio (B.S.).

Correspondence
Address correspondence to Dr. Saugel: Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. bernd.saugel@gmx.de. ANESTHESIOLOGY's articles are made freely accessible to all readers on www.anesthesiology.org, for personal use only, 6 months from the cover date of the issue.

Competing Interests
Dr. Saugel has received honoraria for consulting, honoraria for giving lectures, and refunds of travel expenses from Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, California); honoraria for consulting, institutional restricted research grants, honoraria for giving lectures, and refunds of travel expenses from Pulsion Medical Systems (Feldkirchen, Germany); institutional restricted research grants, honoraria for giving lectures, and refunds of travel expenses from CNSystems Medizintechnik (Graz, Austria); institutional restricted research grants from Retia Medical (Valhalla, New York); honoraria for giving lectures from Philips Medizin Systeme Böblingen (Böblingen, Germany); and honoraria for consulting, institutional restricted research grants, and refunds of travel expenses from Tensys Medical (San Diego, California). Dr. Scheeren has received research grants and honoraria for consulting and lecturing from Edwards Lifesciences and Masimo (Irvine, California) and honoraria for lecturing from Pulsion Medical Systems. Dr. de Backer has received honoraria for consulting from Edwards Lifesciences and honoraria for giving lectures from Fresenius Kabi (Bad Homburg, Germany).