Materials and Methods 81 patients with and lesser circulation after elective surgery regulated subclavian-pulmonary anastomosis for the last 2 years, in the ICU RSCS after V.Vakhidov. Proximal end of tourniquet regulators was used in case of 39 patients and Fogarty catheter for volume dosing of shunt was used in case of 42 patients. Clinical examination: EchoCG (with detection of velocity of bl...

• The development of catheterization and indicator dilution techniques has made it possible to measure the volume of circulating blood within many organs in the intact animal. Hirche and Lochner injected measured amounts of dye into the coronary arteries of dogs and recorded the subsequent time course of dye concentration in blood from the coronary sinus. From this single curve both coronary bl...

We have measured the effects of barium-induced cardiac contraction on the intramyocardial blood volume content of all vessels and have independently measured the blood volume content of vessels with a diameter greater than 100 ,um in rat myocardium. Measurements of total intramyocardial blood volume were made by using [1251]albumin as a plasma marker and technetium-99m as a red blood cell marke...

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a technique that permits noninvasive measurement of changes in the volume of tissues. A novel device uses PPG to assess changes in duodenal mucosal perfusion. When tested in septic piglets, data obtained using this device correlate with the blood lactate concentration and duodenal serosal microvascular blood flow as measured with a laser Doppler flowmeter. This new...

Laboratory-based testing does not allow for the sufficiently rapid return of data to enable optimal therapeutic monitoring of patients with metabolic diseases such as phenylketonuria (PKU). The typical turn-around time of several days for current laboratory-based testing is too slow to be practically useful for effective monitoring or optimizing therapy. This report describes the development of...

We compared the test-retest reliability of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measures of cerebral oxygenation and blood volume during a rhythmic handgrip exercise in 13 nondisabled subjects and 25 subjects with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Subjects with TBI (average Glasgow Coma Scale score = 4.2, average time since injury = 21 mo) had completed an acute brain injury rehabil...

BACKGROUND Hemorrhagic shock is a leading cause of death in both civilian and battlefield trauma. Currently available medical monitors provide measures of standard vital signs that are insensitive and nonspecific. More important, hypotension and other signs and symptoms of shock can appear when it may be too late to apply effective life-saving interventions. The resulting challenge is that earl...

With the exception of Milroy’sl work, no systematic attempt has been made, as far as the writer has been able to ascertain, to follow chemically the changes in alkaline reserve during the period immediately following hemorrhage. Since the Van. Slyke2 method has been devised, such a study has been greatly facilitated. Not only can more extensive data be obtained by the use of this method, due to...

Photoplethysmographic (PPG) waveforms are used to acquire pulse rate (PR) measurements from pulsatile arterial blood volume. PPG waveforms are highly susceptible to motion artifacts (MA), limiting the implementation of PR measurements in mobile physiological monitoring devices. Previous studies have shown that multichannel photoplethysmograms can successfully acquire diverse signal information ...

The effects of circadian blood pressure (BP) changes on the echocardiographic parameters of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy were investigated in 235 consecutive subjects (137 unselected untreated patients with essential hypertension and 98 healthy normotensive subjects) who underwent 24-hour noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and crosssectional and M-mode echocardiography...