Focus on flow: imaging the human microcirculation in perioperative and intensive care medicine

Thesis

Cover

Title pages

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The microcirculation is a vulnerable organ in sepsis

Chapter 2: Classifying microcirculatory flow abnormalities

Chapter 3: Fast-track microcirculation analysis

Chapter 4: Quality and consistency in microvascular research

Chapter 5: Microvascular blood flow in extreme leukocytosis

Chapter 6: Microcirculatory imaging in cardiac anesthesia: ketanserin reduces blood pressure but not perfused capillary density

Chapter 7: Imaging the human microcirculation during resuscitation for cardiac arrest in a hypothermic victim of submersion trauma

Chapter 8: Microvascular hemodynamics in human hypothermic circulatory arrest and selective antegrade cerebral perfusion

Chapter 9: Direct observation of the human microcirculation during cardiopulmonary bypass: effects of pulsatile perfusion

Chapter 10: Withdrawing intra-aortic balloon pump support paradoxically improves microvascular flow

Summary and conclusions

Samenvatting en conclusies

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