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DAMPED WAVEFORM [1 record]

Record 1 1987-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment
  • Injections, Tubing and Transfusions (Medicine)
  • The Lungs
OBS

Among the technical errors that may be made by a person who inserts a catheter is one of not differentiating between a damped waveform and a true pulmonary capillary wedge waveform.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical
  • Injections, tubages et transfusions (Médecine)
  • Poumons
CONT

Dans la partie distale, on peut parfois obtenir une pression veineuse pulmonaire bloquée qui ressemble à la courbe de pression artérielle pulmonaire amortie, transmise avec un retard de 40 à 80 ms à travers la circulation capillaire.

Spanish

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