Practical Applications of Fiberoptics in Critical Care Monitoring

I. Monitoring of Oxygen Saturation.- Oxygen Saturation: Its Significance - Its Calculation - Its Measurement.- Monitoring of Mixed and Central Venous Oxygen Saturation in the Critically Ill.- II. Intrathoracic Blood Volume - Total Blood Volume.- Sensitivity of Central Venous Pressure, Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure, and Intrathoracic Blood Volume as Indicators for Acute and Chronic Hypovolemia.- PEEP-Induced Changes of Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure, Prepulmonary and Total Intrathoracic Blood Volume in Anesthetized Dogs.- Intrathoracic Blood Volume Is a Useful Guide for Volume Substitution in Intensive Care Patients.- Determination of Plasma Volume by Indocyanine Green.- III. Quantification of Liver Function with Indocyanine Green.- Indocyanine Green: Evaluation of Liver Function - Application in Intensive Care Medicine.- Evaluation of Liver Function Using Indocyanine Green Elimination (ICGE) and Galactose Elimination Capacity (GEC): Animal Experiments and Clinical Investigations.- Quantitative Liver Function Tests: A Comparison of Indocyanine Green Elimination, Aminopyrine Breath Test, Galactose Elimination Capacity and Fasting Serum Bile Acids.- Indocyanine Green - A Substance for Evaluation of Excretory Liver Capacity.- IV. Right Ventricular Ejection Fraction.- Thermal Right Ventricular Ejection Fraction: Modulation and Reproducibility During Controlled Mechanical Ventilation.- V. Thermal Dye Dilution - Methods Section.- A Comparison of Extrapolation and Deconvolution of Thermo-Dye Dilution Curve, with Special Emphasis on States with Early Indicator Recirculation.- Effect of Positive End-Expiratory Airway Pressure (PEEP) on Extravascular Thermal Lung Water Estimation in the Dog.- Methodical Problems in Extravascular Lung Water Measurement Usingthe Edwards Lung Water Computer.- Influence of Thermal Loss Error in Lung Water Measurement with the Double-Indicator Thermal-Dye Method.- A Fiberoptics Based System for Integrated Monitoring of Cardiac Output, Intrathoracic Blood Volume, Extravascular Lung Water, O2 Saturation, and a-v Differences.- VI. Lung Water Measurement - Clinical Relevance.- Development and Significance of Lung Water Measurement in Clinical and Experimental Practice.- Extravascular Lung Water Following Liver Transplantation.- Lung Water Measurement for Control of Therapeutic Interventions in Critically Ill Patients.- Measurement of Extravascular Lung Water in Cardiac Surgery.- Determination of Extravascular Lung Water May Facilitate Respiratory Therapy Decision Making.- Clinical Relevance of Lung Water Measurement with the Thermal-Dye Dilution Technique.- The Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome: An Objective Clinical Definition.