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Chronic cardiac output measurement in unrestrained rats: surgical description

Abstract

The poster contains work done on rat-animal model where midline thoracotomy vs. lateral intercostal thoracotomy were used to install transit time cardiac flow probe. Comparing these 2 surgical techniques, midline thoracotomy was considered superior as for an earlier data capture, superior flow probe placement on the ascending aorta/aortic root and faster animal recovery without data dropouts or signal/noise interference. Survival at day 6 seems …

Authors

Konecny F; Newton-Northup J; Callahan M; Pitsillides K; Sosa M

Publication Date

April 26, 2018

DOI

10.7490/f1000research.1115404.1