Continuous Cardiac Output Monitoring: What Do Validation Studies Tell Us?

Current Anesthesiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 242-250

  Critchley, Lester A H ^a   Huang, Li ^b   Zhang, Jie ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Bland Altman; Cardiac output; Monitoring; Pulse contour; Thermodilution; Trending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930009469     PISSN: 21676275     EISSN: 15233855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40140-014-0062-9     Document Type: Article

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