Article Comments - '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' http://ccforum.com/content/11/1/R6/comments The latest comments on the article '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' 2008-02-19T00:00:00Z This is an RSS newsfeed from BioMed Central It is intended to be used with an RSS reader. For more information about RSS newsfeeds from BioMed Central, visit http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/rss/ Correction http://ccforum.com/content/11/1/R6/comments#293567 <p>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.</p> Marat Mazalkov 2008-02-19T00:00:00Z