FRCA Notes

Cardiovascular Monitoring & Equipment

  • Measurement of blood pressure
    • Non-invasive blood pressure monitoring (discontinuous)
    • Non-invasive blood pressure monitoring (continuous)
    • Invasive blood pressure monitoring

  • The ECG

  • Cardiac output monitoring (summary)
    • Non-invasive methods
      • The Fick principle
      • Transthoracic impedance
      • Transcutaneous Doppler
    • Invasive methods
      • PA catheter
      • Indicator/dye dilution method
      • Thermodilution method
      • Trans-oesophageal Doppler
      • Pulse contour analysis
      • PiCCO

  • Cardiac implantable electronic devices e.g. pacemakers (from the Final FRCA Cardiac section)
  • Intra-aortic balloon pump (from the Final FRCA Cardiac section)