author: michael r pinsky

Hemodynamic Monitoring

... Pressure Targets in the Initial Stabilization Organ Blood Flow Patients without chronic hypertension A B Patients with chronic hypertension MAP . Fig. 29.1 MAP ... (point A), organ blood flow becomes dependent on pressure level, and this ...

Oxygen Transport in the Critically Ill

... after shock in man . Kidney Int 1976 ; 10 : 5137 . 206. Richardson PDI ... metabolic ad- justments to hypoxia and exercise in hu- mans . Am J Physiol ... metabolism , and the electroencephalogram , in Miller RD ( ed ) : Anesthesia , vol 2 ...

Applied Physiology in Intensive Care Medicine

... ( PFI ) is calculated as the ratio between the arterial pulsatile component ( Ip ) and the nonpulsatile component ... 24 [ 39 ] . The inclusion of PFI into the pulse oximetry signal is a recent advance in clinical monitoring . However ...

Respiratory-Circulatory Interactions in Health and Disease

... in PE max could be explained by body weight (50). D. Respiratory Muscle Fatigue All skeletal muscles are susceptible to fatigue, a state in which there is a decrease in contractile force ... time (59,60). During regular breathing, the ...

Applied Physiology in Intensive Care Medicine 2: Physiological Reviews and Editorials

... management [9]. In particular, Pplateau and PEEP were decreased further, if possible, and prone positioning, a maneuver known to have a positive effect on lung mechanics and so on RV function [12], was largely applied (in 63% of ...

Advances in Hemodynamic Monitoring, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics,

... overestimate the transmural pressure. In normal subjects, with normal lung and ... need only calculate the index of transmission once, so these estimates of ... final pressure at the end of diastole and before the onset of contraction ...

Case Studies: Tricks and Traps

... pancreatitis and it is possible that this patient might have benefitted from earlier prophylactic use of imipenem . Experimental studies suggest that both bacterial translocation from the gut and hematogenous seeding have a role in the ...

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