CardOutput {MethComp}R Documentation

Measurements of Cardiac output.

Description

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

Usage

data(CardOutput)

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)

[Package MethComp version 0.7.1 Index]