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Descriptor English: Thermodilution
Descriptor Spanish: Termodilución
Descriptor termodilución
Scope note: Medida del flujo sanguíneo que se basa en la inducción, en un punto de la circulación, de un cambio conocido del contenido de calor intravascular de la sangre que fluye y la detección del cambio resultante en la temperatura en un punto más adelante (corriente abajo).
Descriptor Portuguese: Termodiluição
Descriptor French: Thermodilution
Entry term(s): Thermodilutions
Tree number(s): E05.484.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013815
Scope note: Measurement of blood flow based on induction at one point of the circulation of a known change in the intravascular heat content of flowing blood and detection of the resultant change in temperature at a point downstream.
Annotation: NIM
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Cardiac Output (1966-1976)
Indicator Dilution Techniques (1967-1976)
Public MeSH Note: 77
History Note: 77
DeCS ID: 14192
Unique ID: D013815
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Date Established: 1977/01/01
Date of Entry: 1976/04/27
Revision Date: 1997/06/20
Thermodilution - Preferred
Concept UI M0021300
Scope note Measurement of blood flow based on induction at one point of the circulation of a known change in the intravascular heat content of flowing blood and detection of the resultant change in temperature at a point downstream.
Preferred term Thermodilution
Entry term(s) Thermodilutions



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