Quantitative assessment of cardiac load-responsiveness during extracorporeal life support: case and rationale

<p>Abstract</p> <p>We describe a case of a patient assisted by extracorporeal life support, in which we obtained the dynamic filling index, a measure for venous volume during extracorporeal life support, and used this index to assess cardiac load-responsiveness during acute reloadi...

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Main Authors: Weerwind Patrick W, van der Veen Frederik H, Reesink Koen D, Lancé Marcus D, Simons Antoine P, Maessen Jos G
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-04-01
Series:Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Online Access:http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/5/1/30