rheocardiography
English
Etymology
rheo- + cardiography
Noun
rheocardiography (countable and uncountable, plural rheocardiographies)
- The measurement of hemodynamic parameters of the heart (such as stroke volume and cardiac output) by passing a high-frequency current of small amplitude through the chest and recording changes in electrical resistance.
- 1951, Excerpta Medica: Pediatrics - Volume 5, page 234:
- Rheocardiography seemed to be of valuable assistance in diagnosing these cases and in recording the separate stages of the condition.
- 2000, Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, page 106:
- The biophysical principles of impedance rheocardiography were first substantiated by Russian (A. A. Kedrov, Yu. T. Pushkar) and foreign (W. G. Kubicek, B. Sramek) researchers in the 1940-1960s.
- 2012, Nikolai N. Korpan, Basics of Cryosurgery, →ISBN:
- Judging from results of rheocardiography, the increase in the severity of cooling is accompanied by an increase in hemodynamic and cardiac rhythm impairment and increase of blood pressure.
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