Pulse contour analysis: Should good-looking curves be trusted?

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1041-1043

  Berthelsen, P G ^a  

^a HOLSTEBRO HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MONITOR; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE CONTOUR ANALYSIS; PULSE CONTOUR CARDIAC OUTPUT SYSTEM; RELIABILITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THERMODILUTION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THERMODILUTION;

EID: 33748932693     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2006.01153.x     Document Type: Editorial

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