Transpulmonary Thermodilution Versus Transthoracic Echocardiography for Cardiac Output Measurements in Severely Burned Children

INTRODUCTION: Severe burns trigger a hyperdynamic state, necessitating accurate measurement of cardiac output (CO) for cardiovascular observation and guiding fluid resuscitation. However, it is unknown whether, in burned children, the increasingly popular transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) method of CO measurement is as accurate as the widely used transpulmonary thermodilution (TPTD) method. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively compared …