Minimal haemodynamic modelling of the heart & circulation for clinical application.

Characterising circulatory dysfunction in critically ill patients, and choosing a suitable treatment, is a difficult and time-consuming problem often faced by medical staff. A stable, minimal closed loop model of the human cardiovascular system (CVS) is developed with the specific aim of assisting m...

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Main Author: Smith, Bram Wallace
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Department of Mechanical Engineering 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4645