Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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Makhlouf Belghaith

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• Research Article
  Agreement between Central and Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation Following Cardiac Surgery
  Author(s): Ahmed Elsherbeny and Makhlouf BelghaithAhmed Elsherbeny and Makhlouf Belghaith
  
  Objective: To compare oxygen saturation of blood samples simultaneously taken from superior vena cava (ScvO2) and pulmonary artery (SvO2) in the various hemodynamic conditions that occurs in the early postoperative period following cardiac surgery. Methods: Prospective, observational study in a tertiary cardiac center, 60 ICU patients included following cardiac surgery. 56 patients completed the study with three hundred measurements collected. Exclusion criteria included those with uncorrected valvular incompetence or intracardiac shunting, and frequent arrhythmia interfering with adequate cardiac output measurement. Samples taken simultaneously from the central venous catheter and the distal lumen of pulmonary artery catheter (PAC). Samples were obtained during each cardiac output measurement as requested by the attending intensivist accordin.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6148.1000386

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