Continuous cardiac output monitoring system

• Main Author: Tjin, Swee Chuan.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Research Report
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Medical electronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/3019
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A technique of continuous cardiac output (CO) measurement without injection of foreign fluids is discussed in this report. The cardiac output is obtained by multiplying the instantaneous cross-sectional area of the blood vessel with the blood flow velocity. The hardware and probes used for real time...