Volume management in critically ill patients: new insights Avaliação da volemia em pacientes críticos: nova proposta

In order to turn a fluid challenge into a significant increase in stroke volume and cardiac output, 2 conditions must be met: 1) fluid infusion has to significantly increase cardiac preload and 2) the increase in cardiac preload has to induce a significant increase in stroke volume. In other words,...

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Main Authors: Marcel Rezende Lopes, José Otávio Costa Auler Jr, Frédéric Michard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculdade de Medicina / USP 2006-08-01
Series:Clinics
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322006000400012