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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

Matej Podbregar email and Hugon Možina email

Critical Care 2007, 11:R6doi:10.1186/cc5153



See related commentary by Puyana and Pinsky, http://ccforum.com/content/11/1/116

Correction

Marat Mazalkov   (19 February 2008)  The John Radcliffe Hospital email

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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