Review article: Non-invasive assessment of cardiac output with portable continuous-wave Doppler ultrasound

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 201-208

  Meyer, Sascha ^a,e   Todd, David ^a   Wright, Ian ^c   Gortner, Ludwig ^d   Reynolds, Graham ^b  

^a Centre for Newborn Care

^b CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Invasive; Non invasive; Pulmonary artery catheter; Ultrasonic cardiac output monitoring

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; TRAINING;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 44849112494     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2008.01078.x     Document Type: Review

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