Clinical review: Guyton - the role of mean circulatory filling pressure and right atrial pressure in controlling cardiac output

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Henderson, William R ^a   Griesdale, Donald E G ^a   Walley, Keith R ^b   Sheel, A William ^c  

^a VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c School of Human Kinetics 210   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CIRCULATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE COMPLIANCE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; MEAN CIRCULATORY FILLING PRESSURE; MEAN SYSTEMIC FILLING PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOCK; VASODILATATION; VENOUS RETURN; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CORONARY CIRCULATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 79959523025     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc9247     Document Type: Article

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