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  • Title: Limitations of thermodilution ejection fraction: degradation of frequency response by catheter mounting of fast-response thermistors.
    Author: Maruschak GF, Schauble JF.
    Journal: Crit Care Med; 1985 Aug; 13(8):679-82. PubMed ID: 4017599.
    Abstract:
    The present study examined whether catheter-mounting of a fast-response thermistor impaired the thermistor's ability to measure rapid temperature changes during thermodilution measurement of ejection fraction (EF). The response to a square-wave temperature change of six fast-response thermistors mounted on commercially available, pulmonary artery balloon-flotation catheters was compared to the response of a similar but unmounted fast-response thermistor. The response of the catheter-mounted fast-response thermistors recorded only 82% to 92% of a step-temperature change at 0.5 sec, and 88% to 96% of the step change at 1.0 sec. In contrast, the unmounted fast-response thermistor responded to 100% of the step change in 125 msec. The response of the catheter-mounted fast-response thermistors demonstrated an important slow component (second time constant) introduced by the catheter body, so that equilibration to a temperature change was not complete for about 6 sec. This slow equilibration lowered EF measured by thermodilution below true EF.
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