Microcirculatory function monitoring at the bedside - A view from the intensive care

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Knotzer, Hans ^a   Hasibeder, Walter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ried Betriebsgesellschaft mbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gastric tonometry; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Near infrared spectrophotometry; Orthogonal polarization spectral imaging; Tissue reflectance spectrophotometry; Venous occlusion plethysmography

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; MICROCIRCULATION; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; OXYGEN SUPPLY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TISSUE;

GASTRIC TONOMETRY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRIES; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION SPECTRAL IMAGING; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; REFLECTANCE SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTRAL IMAGING; TISSUE REFLECTANCE SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TISSUE REFLECTANCES;

SPECTROSCOPY;

AUTOREGULATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MEASUREMENT; MICROCIRCULATION; MONITORING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN BLOOD FLOW; ORGAN PERFUSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH MEASUREMENT; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; REVIEW; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TONOMETRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34548147742     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/28/9/R01     Document Type: Review

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