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Cardiovascular Hemodynamics
About the Author
Contents Under Pressure
Hemodynamic Acronyms
Normal Cardiac Chamber Pressures
Waveform Components
      Pulse Pressure
Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure Tracing
      Causes of Increased PCWP Pressures
      Mean Pressure
Ventricular Waveforms
      Ventricular Waveform Components
Arterial Waveforms
      Facts About An Atrial Tracing
      Artial Waveform Correlation to EKG
Putting It All Together
Pullbacks
Pullbacks Continued
Simultaneous Tracings
Simultaneous Tracings Continued
Frank Starling Mechanism
Calculations
Aortic Valve Area (AVA)
About Shunts
Shunt Examples
Regurgitant Fraction
Vascular Resistance
References


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