Echocardiography and assessing fluid responsiveness: acoustic quantification again into the picture?

Accurate identification of fluid responsiveness has become an important issue in critically ill patients. Pulse pressure and stroke volume variation have been shown to be reliable predictors of fluid responsiveness. Apart from these two valuable techniques, echo-Doppler offers an interesting alterna...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Poelaert, Jan, Roosens, Carl
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2007
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2151869/