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the amount of blood pumped out by the ventricles in a given period of time
a resting adult has a cardiac output of about three quarts a minute
How To Use cardiac output In A Sentence
- This is more likely following infarction when cardiac output may be reduced and therefore tissue perfusion impaired.
- If cardiac output is compromised, hypoxia of the peripheral tissues may cause lactic acidosis to develop or worsen.
- Heart rate, cardiac output, and minute ventilation increase under hyperthermic conditions, while visceral perfusion decreases.
- Later that day, he developed cardiogenic shock, requiring numerous pressor agents and the aortic balloon pump to maintain his cardiac output.
- Objective To determine the normal value of cardiac output measured by reconstructed impedance cardiogram.
- Be cautious in prescribing diuretics, as excessive diuresis may reduce stroke volume and cardiac output.
- Nitroglycerin reduces BP by reducing preload and cardiac output, undesirable effects in patients with compromised cerebral and renal perfusion.
- Pathogenesis of Hypertension Blood pressure is dependent upon two factors: cardiac output and peripheral resistance.
- With the fall intravascular volume, there is diminished venous return to the right heart, low cardiac output, and a drop in systemic blood pressure.
- Beta-blockers (nadolol, atenolol, metoprolol, propranolol, and others) reduce cardiac output (negative inotropic and chronotropic effects) but increase peripheral resistance.