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Peripheral Venous Pressure (PVP) - a New Way to Use Ernest Starling's Old Insight.
jamesmunis
Mar 16, 2018
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Updated: Feb 8, 2020
Over 100 years ago, Starling said that there is one place in the circulation where pressure is the same whether the heart is beating or not. Amazingly, that same pressure = blood volume/capacity. So simple, so useful, so low-tech.