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Skeletal muscle oxygen saturation does not estimate mixed venous oxygen saturation in patients with severe left heart failure and additional severe sepsis or septic shock
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* Corresponding author: Matej Podbregar Matej.Podbregar@guest.arnes.si
Critical Care 2007, 11:R6 doi:10.1186/cc5153
Correction
Marat Mazalkov (2008-02-19 14:43) The John Radcliffe Hospital
The authors of this article maintain that low cardiac output states tend to have an unchanged oxygen extraction ratio. But a decreased systemic oxygen delivery and unchanged oxygen extraction ratio means that total oxygen consumption is low! This option is not followed in the article.
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