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01-04-2020 | Ultrasound | What's New in Intensive Care
What’s new in ultrasound-based assessment of organ perfusion in the critically ill: expanding the bedside clinical monitoring window for hypoperfusion in shock
Authors:
Francesco Corradi, Gabriele Via, Guido Tavazzi
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 4/2020
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Excerpt
Circulatory shock is defined as a disorder with evidence of both clinical and biochemical tissue hypoperfusion, entailing inadequate oxygen utilization by cells, with or without a systolic blood pressure below 95 mmHg [
1]. Its hallmark are signs of hypoperfusion which reflect the global metabolic and circulatory consequences of oxygen transport/demand imbalance. …