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Cardiac Output: Cardiac Physiology Heart Ventricle Physical Units DM

Cardiac output is the volume of blood pumped by the heart per unit of time and is an important indicator of how efficiently the heart can meet the demands of the body. Cardiac output depends on two major factors - heart rate and stroke volume. It can be represented using units like dm3/min and L/min. There are several methods to measure cardiac output both invasively and non-invasively, each with their own advantages and drawbacks.

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Cardiac Output: Cardiac Physiology Heart Ventricle Physical Units DM

Cardiac output is the volume of blood pumped by the heart per unit of time and is an important indicator of how efficiently the heart can meet the demands of the body. Cardiac output depends on two major factors - heart rate and stroke volume. It can be represented using units like dm3/min and L/min. There are several methods to measure cardiac output both invasively and non-invasively, each with their own advantages and drawbacks.

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Cardiac output

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Major factors influencing cardiac output heart rate and stroke volume, both of which are also
variable.[1]
Cardiac output (CO, also denoted by the symbols and
), is a term used in cardiac physiology that
describes the volume of blood being pumped by the heart, in particular by a left or right ventricle, per
unit time. CO values can be represented using many physical units, such as dm3/min and L/min.
Because cardiac output is related to the quantity of blood delivered to various parts of the body, it is an
important indicator of how efficiently the heart can meet the demands of the body. For instance,
infections are correlated with high CO and heart failure with low CO.
Along with stroke volume (SV), cardiac output is a global blood flow parameter of interest in
hmodynamics the study of the flow of blood under external forces. The factors affecting stroke
volume and heart rate also affect cardiac output. The figure to the right illustrates this dependency and
lists some of these factors. A detailed hierarchical illustration is provided in a subsequent figure.
There are many methods of measuring CO, both invasively and non-invasively, each with its own
advantages and drawbacks. No standard or reference measurement against which all of these methods
can

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