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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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2007
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2151869/ |