The aim of this pilot study was to investigate anaesthetists' assessment of the ability of
patients to increase cardiac output over a range of clinical scenarios and of their perceived …

Purpose The objectives of this study were: 1) to compare the estimated cardiac output (CO)
by visual inspection with objective measurements by thermodilution: 2) to compare the …

We thank the authors [1] for their interest in our article.[2] The authors have brought to
attention the recently published article in the New England Journal of Medicine by Koch et …

Objective: To study adult patients in the immediate postoperative period after cardiac
surgery and determine whether cardiac output (CO) and systemic vascular resistance (SVR) …

METHODS The authors conducted 2 sets of analyses to predict transfusion requirements for
liver transplant patients. They built a multivariate regression model to explain variation in the …

EDITOR: We read the article by Dr Bajorat and colleagues reporting their results with
different methods of cardiac output (CO) determination with great interest [1]. The authors …

Myocardial infarction accounts for over 50 per cent of mortality following elective abdominal
aortic surgery. Previous history of ischaemic heart disease and abnormal ECGs, common in …

Eeditorial 296 www. anesthesia-analgesia. org ANEsThEsIA & ANALgEsIA for instance, a
fluid bolus with an adequate increase in CO. But, in clinical practice, it is at least as important …

Bland and Altman [1] proposed how different measurement techniques should be compared,
suggesting that one in which the limits of agreement were 20% in either direction would not …

Erythrocyte transfusion, used as both a prophylactic and therapeutic intervention, is a
cellular transplantation that comes with consequent sequelae including immediate1–3 and …