For high risk and haemodynamically unstable patients, continuous cardiac output monitoring is essential.
truCCOMS provides real-time, second-by-second measaurement of cardiac output, continuously.
Real-time information allows you to maintain adequate perfusion to the body in the perioperative period and during intensive care.
truCCOM patient monitor
» Changes incardiac output are detected and displayed as they happen, No Averages - No Delays. » The monitor takes readings from the catheter 7.5 times per second with screen updates every second. » Provides Cardiac Output, Cardiac Index, Systemic Vascular Resisitance, Blood Temperature, Central Veneous Pressure, Pulmonary Artery Pressure and Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure.
real-time technology in two parts
truCATH catheter
» No heating of the blood thanks to an innovative application of the Heat Transfer Principle. » Contamination risks are reduced as there is no need for repeated catheter opening to perform thermodilution measurements. »Cost effective system: No need for additional disposables in continuous mode.
» Dual functionality - intermittent standard TD and Continous Cardiac Output.
Heat Transfer Device (HTD)
» The Heat Transfer Device (HTD) maintains a differential of 2ºC above blood temperature.
» Two Thermistors measure temeperature at T1: 7.5cm from the catheter tip beneath the HTD and at T2: 11.5cm from the catheter tip.
Blood temperature is measured by the thermistors at T2, while the thermistor at T1, measures the temperature of the HTD. As blood flows across the HTD it is cooled thus triggering the monitor to supply more power to the HTD to maintain the 2ºC differential. If cardiac output, i.e. flow increases, more power is required. If cardiac output decreases, less power is required. Therefore power nedded is directly proportional to flow and is converted to flow using a determined algorithm.
Using an innovative application of the Mass-Heat Transfer principle, the Omega truCCOMS® is fundamentally different from all other CO measurement technologies.
