Hemodynamics Chapter Topics
FastFacts For Adult Critical Care
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• Arterial line set-up
• Quick transducer test
• PA cath set-up, two transducers
• PA cath set-up, one transducer
• PA cath insertion
• Leveling to the phlebostatic axis
• PA pressures and waveforms
• PA pressure measurement
• Cardiac output measurement
• The determinants of CO
• Shock & the sympathetic-adrenal response
• Stages of shock
• Cardiogenic shock
• Hemorrhagic shock
• Septic shock
• Hemodynamic & Pulmonary formulas