Glucose pump test: A new method for blood flow measurements

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2244-2248

  Magnasco, Alberto ^a   Alloatti, Sandro ^a   Martinoli, Carlo ^a   Solari, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constant infusion; Glucose; Vascular access

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY; ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE ASSAY; GLUCOSE INFUSION; HEART OUTPUT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; IN VIVO STUDY; INFUSION PUMP; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYRINGE; TIME; VASCULAR ACCESS;

BLOOD CIRCULATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; RHEOLOGY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0036899309     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/17.12.2244     Document Type: Article

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