Patients with cardiac diseases undergoing non-cardiac surgery have high risk and mortality. Management of these kind of patients is complicated and difficult. Appropriate use of circulation monitoring is good for clinical decision making and prognosis improvement. This article reviews the circulation monitoring technologies for patients with cardiac diseases undergoing non-cardiac surgeries from pressure monitoring, haemodynamics monitoring and cardiac structure and function monitoring. To choose suitable circulation monitor individually according to advantages, disadvantages and interference factors of every technology, the comorbidities and surgical characteristics can provide references for clinical decision making.
