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Decreased cardiac output: validation with postoperative heart surgery patients
Ana Paula Vilcinsky Oliva1, Diná de Almeida Lopes Monteiro da Cruz
1Universidade Estadual de Maringa, Parana, Brazil. key@maringa.com.br
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing : DCCN
|January 28, 2003
Abstract:
This study was done to analyze the association between defining characteristics of decreased cardiac output (DCO) identified by noninvasive methods and the cardiac index (CI) estimated by thermodilution. Two defining characteristics were associated with DCO: decreased peripheral pulse and decreased peripheral perfusion. This study points out the relevance of peripheral circulation assessment in postoperative cardiac surgery patients.