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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on October 28, 2009
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehp461
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The ‘left’ ventricle during pulsatile mechanical assistance: reliability of cardiac output monitoring with an uncalibrated pulse contour method

Sabino Scolletta1, Luigi Muzzi2,*, Salvatore Mario Romano3, Igor D. Gregoric4 and Howard O. Frazier4

1 Department of Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
2 Department of Heart and Great Vessels, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy
3 Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
4 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +39 0773 651473, Fax: +39 0773 489403, Email: luigimuzzi@hotmail.com

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The determination of cardiac output (CO) during mechanical circulatory support (MCS) is crucial since low-output syndrome is the main cause of death in such patients.

A new uncalibrated pulse contour . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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