CardOutput {MethComp}

Measurements of Cardiac output.

Description

Two different ways of measuring cardiac output and oxygen saturation in 15 critically ill persons.

Format

A data frame with 15 observations on the following 8 variables.

Age

Patient age

Diag

Diagnosis, a factor with levels sepsis, cardiogenic, hypothermia

VO2

Oxygen consumption

Svo2

Mixed venous O2 saturation

Scvo2

Central venous oxygen saturation

TCO

Thermodilution-derived cardiac output

FCO

Fick-derived cardiac output.

Sex

Sex, a factor with levels F, M

Source

Avi A. Weinbroum, Philippe Biderman, Dror Soffer, Joseph M. Klausner & Oded Szold:

Reliability of cardiac output calculation by the fick principle and central venous oxygen saturation in emergency conditions.

Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing (2008) 22: 361-366

Examples

data(CardOutput)