The customer reported that a patient needed picco (pulse contour continuous cardiac output) monitoring.While the patient was being monitored, it was found that there was no signal due to the cables not working.It was reported that the picco transducer was not working and was re-seated three times, without success.The customer decided to put in a pulmonary artery catheter.It was futher reported that issues arose with the cables and the monitor again and that there was no signal from the pulsion device.The patient was reported to be without cardiac output monitoring for 4-7 hours, but there was no negative impact to the patient reported.
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