The Carotid Sinus as a Viscometer

Andrew Iskander; Rotem Naftalovich; Niema M Pahlevan

doi:10.3390/diagnostics10110924

The Carotid Sinus as a Viscometer

Diagnostics (Basel). 2020 Nov 10;10(11):924. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10110924.

Authors

Andrew Iskander¹, Rotem Naftalovich², Niema M Pahlevan^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Westchester Medical Center, 100 Woods Rd, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School, 185 S. Orange Avenue, MSB E-538, Newark, NJ 07103, USA.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
⁴ Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Rm 470, Michelson Bldg., 1002 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

Abstract

Our group thought the study by Lee and Kim entitled "Hemodynamic Changes in the Carotid Artery after Infusion of Normal Saline Using Computational Fluid Dynamics" was a very elegant method to discern the changes in blood rheology within the carotid sinus after administration of crystalloid [...].