A STUDY OF THE VOLUME OF THE BLOOD IN CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE. RELATION TO OTHER MEASUREMENTS IN FIFTEEN PATIENTS

Abstract

culation time usually rise as congestive heart fail- ure develops, it might be anticipated that there would be a simple relationship between these two. Within this group, such is not the case. There is no significant correlation between the venous pres- TABLE III Correlation between various measurements Coefficients italicized are significant Correlation Cas coeff Sc cient (-Venous presure-blood volume 14 -0.418 no Venous p ure-plasma volume 14 -0.400 no Vanous pressure-cell volume 14 -0.54 lessthan0.06 Circulation time-blood volume 12 -0.105 no Circulation timeplasma volume 12 -0.199 no Circulation time-cell volume 12 +0.231 no Capillary unsaturation-blood volume 15 +0.264 no Capillary unsaturation-plasma volume 15 -0.257 no Capillary unsaturation-call volume 15 +0.6S0 lessthan0.02 Venous pressure-circulation time 12 +0.099 no Arterial C02 content-arterial 02 saturation 15 -0.856 lessthan 0.01 T. D. Heart Log circulation time- 8 +0.959 leuthan0.01