UMEM Educational Pearls

Category: Critical Care

Title: Central Venous Pressure

Keywords: central venous pressure (PubMed Search)

Posted: 2/19/2008 by Mike Winters, MD (Updated: 4/24/2024)
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The use of central venous pressure as a monitor of volume status remains very controversial in the critical care literature
Remember that CVP can be affected by many conditions
Important conditions that affect the accuracy of CVP include:
- right ventricular disease
- tricuspid valve disease
- pericardial disease
- changes in intrathoracic pressure (PEEP, positive pressure ventilation)
- arrhythmias
- reference level of the transducer