MGI MEDICAL
"OVERCOMING THE LIMITATIONS OF
CONVENTIONAL HEMODYNAMIIC MONITORING"
CONVENTIONAL HEMODYNAMIIC MONITORING"
Pulse Flow Changes in a Porcine Model of Acute Hemorrhagic Shock
There is a research program at the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD in which oxygen
consumption and debt are measured in pigs that are acutely bled to a
predetermined mean blood pressure and held at that pressure for about 4
hours or until the animal dies. We measured PPV in the forelimb of one
such animal. We found that in this one animal that changes in PPV
tracked very closely with changes in cardiac output.
Anecdotal data obtained from one pig at the Uniformed Services Medical School, Bethesda, MDl
Anecdotal data obtained from one pig at the Uniformed Services Medical School, Bethesda, MDl
