Cardiac output monitoring using indicator-dilution techniques: Basics, limits, and perspectives

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 799-811

  Reuter, Daniel A ^a   Huang, Cecil ^b   Edrich, Thomas ^b   Shernan, Stanton K ^b   Eltzschig, Holger K ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; LITHIUM;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BOLUS INJECTION; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; INDICATOR DILUTION CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; REVIEW; THERMODILUTION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

EID: 77949305811     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181cc885a     Document Type: Review

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