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Cardiac index

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A cardiodynamic measure based on the cardiac output, which is the amount of blood the left ventricle ejects into the systemic circulation in one minute, measured in liters per minute (l/min).

Cardiac output can be indexed to a patient's body size by dividing by the body surface area (called the BSA) to yield the cardiac index

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