Section I - VII
All Anesthesia Technologist Questions

Connect thermodilution kit to distal (yellow) port, making sure to deair the fluid bag. To calculate body surface area (BSA), thus cardiac index (CI), the weight and the height of the patient are needed along with a computation constant specific for the catheter in use. One measurement of cardiac output is appropriate if the value is similar to the previous measurement. Cardiac output measurement can be performed during cardiopulmonary bypass. The cardiac output measurement with the use of PAC by the change of temperature of injectate is called the ''Fick principle.''