Cardiovascular monitoring tools: Use and misuse

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-229

  Bellomo, Rinaldo ^a   Uchino, Shigehiko ^a  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cardiac output; Monitoring; Outcome; Pulse contour analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CRITICAL CARE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037865718     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075198-200306000-00010     Document Type: Review

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