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A new simple and less traumatic modification of the thermodilution method is proposed for cardiac output measurements in small laboratory animals. In this modification, the thermistor is placed not in the major vessels, but in the esophagus at the level of the left ventricle.
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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 127, No. 5, pp. 593–596, May, 1999
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Filimonova, M.V., Skvortsov, A.A. A modified thermodilution method of cardiac output measurements in small laboratory animals. Bull Exp Biol Med 127, 540–543 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02434962
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02434962