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  2. Cardiac output - Wikipedia

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    Major factors influencing cardiac output – heart rate and stroke volume, both of which are variable. [1]In cardiac physiology, cardiac output (CO), also known as heart output and often denoted by the symbols , ˙, or ˙, [2] is the volumetric flow rate of the heart's pumping output: that is, the volume of blood being pumped by a single ventricle of the heart, per unit time (usually measured ...

  3. Fick principle - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, using the assumed Fick determination, the approximated cardiac output for an average man (1.9 m3) is: Cardiac Output = (125 mL O 2 /minute × 1.9) / (200 mL O 2 /L − 150 mL O 2 /L) = 4.75 L/min. Cardiac output may also be estimated with the Fick principle using production of carbon dioxide as a marker substance. [3]

  4. Ejection fraction - Wikipedia

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    Modalities applied to measurement of ejection fraction is an emerging field of medical mathematics and subsequent computational applications. The first common measurement method is echocardiography, [7] [8] although cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), [8] [9] cardiac computed tomography, [8] [9] ventriculography and nuclear medicine (gated SPECT and radionuclide angiography) [8] [10 ...

  5. Frank–Starling law - Wikipedia

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    However, neither Frank nor Starling was the first to describe the relationship between the end-diastolic volume and the regulation of cardiac output. [5] The first formulation of the law was theorized by the Italian physiologist Dario Maestrini , who on December 13, 1914, started the first of 19 experiments that led him to formulate the "legge ...

  6. Velocity time integral - Wikipedia

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    Velocity Time Integral is a clinical Doppler ultrasound measurement of blood flow, equivalent to the area under the velocity time curve. The product of VTI (cm/stroke) and the cross sectional area of a valve (cm2) yields a stroke volume (cm3/stroke), which can be used to calculate cardiac output.

  7. Cardiac function curve - Wikipedia

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    The horizontal axis of Guyton diagram represents right atrial pressure or central venous pressure, and the vertical axis represents cardiac output or venous return. The red curve sloping upward to the right is the cardiac output curve, and the blue curve sloping downward to the right is the venous return curve. A steady state is formed at the ...

  8. Pressure–volume loop analysis in cardiology - Wikipedia

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    Cardiomyopathy and heart failure cause a reduction in cardiac output, whereas infection and sepsis are known to increase cardiac output. Hence, the ability to accurately measure CO is important in physiology, as it provides for improved diagnosis of abnormalities, and can be used to guide the development of new treatment strategies.

  9. Shunt equation - Wikipedia

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    π – The constant π as, for ease of calculations, we theorize that the cross sectional area is almost circular Based on the above, a shunt can be quantified by measuring the flow ratio of the pulmonary cardiac output (Qp) to the systemic cardiac output (Qs). Qp/Qs = (VTI RVOT × 0.785 × d RVOT ²) / (VTI LVOT × 0.785 × d LVOT ²) <=>