Is continuous really continuous?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 628-630

  Buhre, Wolfgang ^a,b   Rex, Steffen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arterial pulse contour analysis; Cardiac output; Intermittent thermodilution

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PULSE CONTOUR ANALYSIS; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TECHNIQUE; TRANSPULMONARY THERMODILUTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 38549159929     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000299843.88540.6C     Document Type: Editorial

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