Capstesia™: The smart hemodynamic monitor!

Advanced hemodynamic monitoring can be both time and cost consuming in the perioperative period. Smartphones which have become an important part of our lives, can help circumvent this difficult situation with intelligent applications. Capstesia™ is a novel and promising application of smart phones in this direction. It can calculate the cardiac output, cardiac index, pulse pressure variation, and stroke volume resistance from a snapshot of the arterial pressure waveform. We hereby present a concise overview of it's usage, present limitations and future possibilities. Capstesia™ can be of immense utility in patient care and monitoring both in the operating room and the intensive care units.