Pulmonary vascular permeability index and global end-diastolic volume: are the data consistent in patients with femoral venous access for transpulmonary thermodilution: a prospective observational study

Table 1 Terminology of thermodilution-derived parameters

Subscript	Meaning	Parameters analyzed
“displayed”	Values as displayed by the PiCCO monitor	GEDVI_displayed
		GEDV_displayed
		EVLW_displayed
		PVPI_displayed
“calculated”	Parameters calculated based on parameters displayed on the monitor.	GEDV_calculated
“calculated”	These parameters should be consistent with corresponding displayed values.	PVPI_calculated
“corrected”	Parameters derived from correction of the displayed values. Corrected parameters were used for comparison to calculated values (only used in case of inconsistency of displayed and calculated values).	PVPI_corrected
“corrected”		GEDV_uncorrected

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