Can the "FloTrac" really track flow in septic patients?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-185

  Monnet, Xavier ^a   Lahner, Daniel ^b  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICE; EDITORIAL; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; SEPSIS;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SEPSIS; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 79953814133     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-2109-9     Document Type: Editorial

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