Impedance cardiography – Old method, new opportunities. Part I. Clinical applications

• Authors: Jadwiga Siedlecka , Patryk Siedlecki , Alicja Bortkiewicz

Abstracts

EN

Monitoring of cardiovascular hemodynamic changes requires a very expensive and highly specialized equipment and skilled medical personnel. Up to the present time, an inexpensive, non-invasive and easy-to-use method which, like Doppler echocardiography, magnetic resonance angiography or radionuclide imaging, would assess hemodynamics of the cardiovascular system was not available. A method known as impedance cardiography (ICG) or thoracic electrical bioimpedance cardiography (TEBC) meets those criteria. It is non-invasive, which is of a particular advantage over the conventional methods that require catheterization. As a result, the patient is not at risk of possible complications and the procedure is less expensive and easier. Impedance cardiography, despite its non-invasive character, has not been so far extensively used for monitoring of hemodynamic parameters in hospitalized patients. Various authors report that attempts have been continued to compare the results from ICG and those obtained by other diagnostic methods. This paper presents the use of impedance cardiography in diagnosis of hypertension, cardiac insufficiency, differentiating the causes of acute dyspnea, as well as in assessing the effects of cardiac rehabilitation in patients with heart failure.

Keywords

EN

impedance cardiography; hypertension; heart failure; dyspnea; cardiac rehabilitation

• Publisher: Instytut Medycyny Pracy im. prof. dra Jerzego Nofera w Łodzi
• Journal: International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-33

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

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Jadwiga Siedlecka

• Department of Work Physiology and Ergonomics, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łódź, Poland

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Patryk Siedlecki

• Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland

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Alicja Bortkiewicz

• Department of Work Physiology and Ergonomics, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łódź, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.13075/ijomeh.1896.00451

Biblioteka Nauki

2177029