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Jul 17, 2023 · Cardiac output (CO) is the amount of blood pumped by the heart minute and is the mechanism whereby blood flows around the body, especially providing blood flow to the brain and other vital organs. The body’s demand for oxygen changes, such as during exercise, and the cardiac output is altered by modulating both heart rate (HR) and stroke volume (SV). As a result, the regulation of cardiac ...
- Jordan King, David R. Lowery
- 2023/07/17
- 2019
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Cardiac output, or how much blood your heart can pump in a minute, can tell your healthcare provider about your heart’s strength and health. This can help them make a diagnosis or find out if your treatment is working as it should. Providers can use several methods to calculate cardiac output. Some methods are more invasive than others.
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How to calculate cardiac output
Your healthcare provider can use several different methods to figure out your cardiac output. These methods include: Find out the amount of oxygen an organ or tissue uses by subtracting how much oxygen is in your veins from how much oxygen is in your arteries. Then you multiply it by blood flow rate. Compare the temperature of blood in your vena cava or right atrium with the temperature of blood in your pulmonary arteries. Take mean arterial pressure (your arteries’ average pressure) and divide it by systemic vascular resistance (the amount of force or pressure your vessels put on your blood). Use a portable device that involves breathing certain gases through a mouthpiece. Use a device that involves putting six electrodes on your chest. These measure your heart rate and stroke volume and calculate cardiac output from those. Transthoracic echocardiography to estimate stroke volume. Heart MRI. Inject dye into your blood when it goes into your heart’s right side and measure how much dye comes out of your heart’s left side. Advertisement
What to expect during the test
For the most accurate method, your provider will need to measure how much oxygen you’re breathing in and get blood samples from an artery and from a catheter in your pulmonary artery. Your provider can do this during right heart catheterization. You will be able to find out your cardiac output the same day along with information regarding pressures inside your heart. Care at Cleveland Clinic Cardiology Care Cardiology Care for Children Make an Appointment
What type of results do you get and what do the results mean?
Normal cardiac output ranges from 5 to 6 liters per minute in a person at rest. While exercising, an athlete can have a cardiac output of more than 35 liters per minute. A non-athlete’s cardiac output will be lower than an athlete’s but higher than when the non-athlete is at rest. Your cardiac output also goes up during pregnancy.
Cardiac output is the measurement of blood flow from the heart through the ventricles, and is usually measured in liters per minute. Any factor that causes cardiac output to increase, by elevating heart rate or stroke volume or both, will elevate blood pressure and promote blood flow.
- Lindsay M. Biga, Sierra Dawson, Amy Harwell, Robin Hopkins, Joel Kaufmann, Mike LeMaster, Philip Mat...
- 2019
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Cardiac output is distributed throughout the organs and tissues of the body, generally according to metabolic demand. In most conditions, the metabolic need for oxygen is the dominant factor affecting a tissue’s blood flow resistance. Each gram of tissue has the capability to control the flow of blood through its microcirculation by altering ...
