The use of transesophageal echocardiography for preload assessment in critically III patients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 351-355

  Tousignant, Claude P ^a   Walsh, Fergus ^a   Mazer, C David ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART PRELOAD; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033966058     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200002000-00021     Document Type: Article

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