Various methods have been developed to help determine if patients have achieved their “dry weight.” The standard goal of ultrafiltration (UF) is the achievement of “dry weight,” defined as the lowest ...

The clinical determination of the intravascular volume can be extremely difficult in critically ill and injured patients as well as those undergoing major surgery. This is problematic as fluid loading ...

This, however, may be insufficient to identify early signs of intravascular volume depletion and to prevent hypotensive episodes. For this reason, clinicians have utilized other measures such as ...

A method of detecting intravascular volume depletion in a patient during a hemodialysis session, the method comprising: measuring venous drip pressure for the patient; with a computer-driven analyzer, ...

Hct-BVM (Crit Line III, Hemametrics) is an optical density monitor that can detect and visually display the continuous recording of changes in hematocrit, relative blood volume and oxygen saturation ...