Use of assumed versus measured oxygen co
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Wolf, Andreas ;Pollman, Matthew J. ;Trindade, Pedro T. ;Fowler, Michael B. ;Alde
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Assumed oxygen consumption (VO 2 ) is increasingly used as a convenient surrogate for measured VO 2 for calculation of cardiac output. This substitution is often based on empirical formulae, previously validated only in relatively young patients. To assess the inaccuracy introduced by extrapolating