IJCS | Volume 31, Nº3, May/ June 2018

284 Chart 1 - Characterization of the country and language of publication of articles. Chart 2 - Distribution of articles according to the author's professions. Doctors Nurses Both Silva et al. Impedance cardiography in myocardial infarction International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences. 2018;31(3)282-289 Review Article The comparison of cardiac output (CO) accuracy determined by bioimpedance, thermodilution, and the Fick method led to the conclusion that the three techniques are not interchangeable in a heterogeneous population of critically ill patients. Measurements of CO by thermodilution were more significant than by bioimpedance. However, for each subject, the bioimpedancemethod varies less than the thermodilution method varies. 8 ICG could decrease the need for placement of a pulmonary artery catheter in critically ill patients in coronary care units (CCU). The benefits of pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) may not justify the risks associated with invasive hemodynamic monitoring, such as the potential for infection and other complications associated with a catheter. Although ICG does not provide pulmonary artery pressure, it does provide reliable and reproducible measures of cardiac index, stroke volume, systemic vascular resistance, and other hemodynamic parameters. Clinicians utilizing ICG believe it aids medical decision-making and improves patient outcomes in coronary care units, and in the comparison of average hospital cost, it was found PAC 2165$ / ICG 34$ per procedure. 9 ICG data could reflect the early cardiac functions of AMI patients, but the accuracyof ICGinevaluating cardiac