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700 consecutive adults with disease-free coronary arteries who underwent cardiac output measurement during…
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Supports BSA indexing for CO/SV interpretation; observational data leaves open prospective validation in critical care.
Variations in BMI translate into predictable but modest differences in cardiac output and stroke volume, and indexing to body surface area attenuates these effects, suggesting body habitus should not appreciably complicate hemodynamic interpretation.
Stelfox et al. (2006) studied this question.
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