Cardiac Contractile Reserve Parameters Are Related to Prognosis in Septic Shock

Figure 4

Kaplan-Meyer curves estimating the rate of death for a Double Product (DP) >11000 mmHg/s (a), a SAPS II >58 (b), a Cardiac Power Index (CPI) and a Cardiac Index (CI) either unchanged or decreased ((c) and (d)). bpm, beats per minute; SAPS II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score.

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