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cess in the critically ill patient, it is appropriate to
question the lack of studies of these devices in the em-
ergency department, and the potential benefits to cri-
tically ill patients it affords therein. Continuous cardiac
output monitoring that informs optimal preload and after-
load can guide the timing of fluid, vasopressor, and ino-
trope therapies. Such goal directed or quantitative re-
suscitation efforts can be associated with improved out-
comes, decreased length of stay, and reduced compli-
cations [23]. The advanced available technology and the
increasingly complex patients presenting to emergency
departments requiring acute resuscitation increases the
likelihood that tod ay’s nurses will begin to see these n ew
systems deployed to the emergency department environ-
ment to pro- vide critical monitoring.
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks to Stephen Trzeciak and Kathy Zavotsky.
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