Impedance cardiography in cardiac surgery patients: Abnormal body weight gives unreliable cardiac output measurements

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 708-712

  Van Der Meer, B J M ^a,b   De Vries, J P P M ^b   Schreuder, W O ^b   Bulder, E R ^b   Eysman, L ^b   De Vries, P M J M ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Impedance cardiography; Obesity; Post cardiac surgery; Thermodilution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; THERMODILUTION;

EID: 0030791347     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1997.tb04770.x     Document Type: Article

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