The cardiac index increased only slightly because of the reduction in the heart rate.

Similar to cardiac index, is a method of relating the stroke volume to the size of the person.

This haemodynamic event, combined with stability in the cardiac index, did not offer a significant gain to the right ventricular oxygen supply.

High cardiac index and pulmonary capillary wedge pressures, however, may lead to false positives by this standard.

"Whether it's nerve conductions or cardiac index or breathing capacity or oxygen intake.

Decreases in the cardiac index may impair optimum oxygen delivery and outweigh the advantage of an oxygen-carrying solution.

Administration of Hemopure leads to vasoconstrictive effects that may increase systemic and pulmonary vascular resistance with resultant decreases in cardiac index.

This study indicated that ibuprofen can limit the degree of hypotension and acidosis, and decrease the cardiac index in endotoxic shock.

Our results are in agreement with the conclusions drawn by the previous authors; in fact, a slight increase or no increase in cardiac index was seen in all the patients studied.

Cardiac index, shunt fraction, oxygen delivery (DO 2 ) and oxygen consumption were calculated at baseline and at all PEEP levels.

Another technology is monitoring central pressures by PAC, which is often used in ICUs to assess the effect of pharmacotherapy on the cardiac index in patients with septic shock.

However, none of the changes in haemodynamic parameters, including those in central venous pressure, pulmonary artery occlusion pressure, cardiac output, cardiac index and DO 2 , achieved statistical significance (Table 2and Fig.

Children who receive spinal radiation for treatment of CNS tumors have been demonstrated to show low maximal cardiac index on exercise testing and pathologic Q-waves in inferior leads on ECG testing, and higher posterior-wall stress.