Lack of agreement between different observers and methods in the measurement of capillary refill time in healthy volunteers: An observational study

Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 269-276

  Valenzuela Espinoza, Emilio Daniel ^a   Welsh, Sebastián ^a   Dubin, Arnaldo ^a,b  

^a Sanatorio Otamendi y Miroli   (Argentina)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Capillaries physiology; Perfusion; Shock diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CAPILLARY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHOCK;

ADULT; CAPILLARIES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHOCK;

EID: 84919339239     PISSN: 0103507X     EISSN: 19824335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5935/0103-507X.20140038     Document Type: Article

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