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Reliability of continuous cardiac output measurement during intra-abdominal hypertension relies on repeated calibrations: an experimental animal study

Matthias Gruenewald*, Jochen Renner, Patrick Meybohm, Jan Höcker, Jens Scholz and Berthold Bein

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Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Schwanenweg 21, D-24105 Kiel, Germany

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Critical Care 2008, 12:R132 doi:10.1186/cc7102

Published: 29 October 2008

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Adobe file containing a table listing detailed results of Bland–Altman analysis comparing COTCP and different CO methods at each individual step, Figure S1 showing linear regression and Bland–Altman plots comparing changes in CO (ΔCO) of different CO methods versus ΔCOTCP, and Figure S2 showing the individual time response of each CO parameter and each animal.

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