V ENOCONSTRICTION has been suggested as an explanation for a variety of observations made on animals and humans suffering from cardiac decompensation.'-5 We have used the method described by Litter and coworkers for measuring peripheral venous distensibility' to study this aspect of congestive heart failure in man. The method measures the increment of limb volume occurring in response to a know...

s of papers 31 133 Venous Blood Pressure in Broilers During Acute Inhalation of 5% Carbon Dioxide, and During Unilateral Pulmonary Artery Occlusion. R. F. Wideman, Jr.*, P. Maynard, and W. G. Bottje, . We evaluated the hypothesis that venous congestion (increased venous volume) and venous hypertension (increased venous pressure), may arise when the right ventricle must elevate the pulmonary art...

Sequential measurements of cardiac output, intravascular pressures, blood gases, pH, blood volume, and oxygen consumption were made in normal subjects and patients in shock before, during, and after infusions of dextran-40. In eight normal subjects the responses were: increased central venous pressure, increased cardiac index, decreased peripheral resistance, and decreased hemoglobin concentrat...

We present a case of inadvertent arterial insertion of a central venous catheter, identified during a pericardiectomy procedure after observing abrupt changes in pressure waveform and confirmed via arterial blood gas analysis and transesophageal echocardiography. Central venous pressure measurement was initially 20 mmHg in supine, and then elevated to 30-40 mmHg in right lateral decubitus, pres...

V ENOCONSTRICTION has been suggested as an explanation for a variety of observations made on animals and humans suffering from cardiac decompensation.'-5 We have used the method described by Litter and coworkers for measuring peripheral venous distensibility' to study this aspect of congestive heart failure in man. The method measures the increment of limb volume occurring in response to a know...

OBJECTIVE In 2003, critical care and infectious disease experts representing 11 international organizations developed management guidelines for early goal-directed therapy that would be of practical use for the bedside clinician, under the auspices of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, an international effort to increase awareness and improve outcome in severe sepsis. DESIGN The process included ...

conclusions thus, we can conclude that a simulator system using an extracorporeal circulation system can be set to different models of dialyzers, and that the reproduced treatment scenarios can be used for simulation training. results the results of the tests demonstrated successful activation of the alarms by the dialysis apparatus, which were appropriate for each of the five types of accident...