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Both central venous pressure (CVP) and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) have been used as guides to fluid replacement in patients undergoing abdominal aortic surgery. To test the hypothesis that changes in PCWP (deltaPCWP) may be reliably estimated from changes in CVP (deltaCVP), 55 patients had simultaneous measurements (302 paired observations) of CVP and PCWP, as well as of cardiac output, before and during operation. The correlation between deltaCVP and deltaPCWP was high (r = 0.716, P less than 0.001). The estimated slope for the linear regression was 0.88. The standard error of the estimate was +/- 3.75 torr, making the prediction of deltaPCWP from deltaCVP accurate only to within 7.5 torr. There were five patients who each had a low and failing CVP accompanied by a stable cardiac output and a rising PCWP; for them, a decision to administer fluid based on the CVP might have resulted in pulmonary edema. Although deltaCVP accurately predicted direction and magnitude of deltaPCWP in the majority of patients (90%), there was a small group in whom there was no substitute for direct measurement of PCWP.
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