Oxygen Delivery and Consumption: A Macrocirculatory Perspective

Critical Care Clinics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 239-253

  Nichols, Dane ^a   Nielsen, Nathan D ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early goal directed therapy; Oxygen consumption; Oxygen delivery

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN; PROSTACYCLIN;

ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; CHRONOTROPISM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY GOAL DIRECTED THERAPY; EARLY INTERVENTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; VASODILATATION; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEPSIS;

EID: 77951150730     PISSN: 07490704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2009.12.003     Document Type: Review

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