Cardiac output measurement: Is least invasive always the best?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2380-2382

  Vincent, Jean Louis ^a   De Backer, Daniel ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANEMIA; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; EDITORIAL; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE PERFUSION;

EID: 0036796943     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200210000-00035     Document Type: Editorial

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