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Limitations of Systolic Time Intervals for Evaluation of Cardiac Function

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Systolic Time Intervals

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Systolic time intervals (STI) are influenced by several anthropometric, hemodynamic, and pharmacologic factors which can limit the usefulness of STI for the evaluation of cardiac function in individual patients. The hemodynamic factors are largely unknown in individual patients. To appropriately use STI the following facts should be kept in mind.

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  1. Institut für Anästhesiologie, Universität Graz Landeskrankenhaus, Auenbruggerplatz, 8036, Graz, Austria

    Werner List

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, J. Hillis Miller Health Center, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32610, USA

    Joachim S. Gravenstein

  3. University of Massachusetts, Medical School and St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01604, USA

    David H. Spodick M. D., D. Sc.

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Kesteloot, H. (1980). Limitations of Systolic Time Intervals for Evaluation of Cardiac Function. In: List, W., Gravenstein, J.S., Spodick, D.H. (eds) Systolic Time Intervals. International Boehringer Mannheim Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46418-8_3

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