Intensive care medicine in 2050: NEWS for hemodynamic monitoring
For decades, the hemodynamic assessment of critically ill patients relied almost exclusively on invasive dilution techniques and on echocardiography evaluations performed with cumbersome devices. Things changed dramatically over the last decade with the development of multiple less invasive cardiac output monitoring techniques and the metamorphosis of ultrasound devices. The continuous acceleration of hardware and software innovations makes it impossible to accurately predict what hemodynamic monitoring will be like 33 years from now. However, key trends can be envisioned and are summarized below using the acronym "NEWS"
Intensive Care Medicine