Pulse pressure variation, stroke volume variation and dynamic arterial elastance

Letter

Raphael Giraud, Nils Siegenthaler and Karim Bendjelid^*

Medecin Adjoint Agrégé, Division des Soins Intensifs, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, CH-1211 Genève 14, Switzerland

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Critical Care 2011, 15:414 doi:10.1186/cc10088

See related research by Monge García et al., http://ccforum.com/content/15/1/R15

Published: 23 March 2011

We read with interest the recent article by Monge Garcia and colleagues [1]. We have two comments regarding this interesting physiological study.