This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

WALTER F. KVALE, M.D.; LUCIAN A. SMITH, M.D.; EDGAR V. ALLEN, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1940;40(2):344-351.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Methods used since 1922 for determining the speed¹ with which blood flows in man depend for the most part on production of a reaction in one part of the body (for example, the tongue) to a substance injected into a vein in another part of the body (for example, the median basilic vein). The time elapsing between injection of the substance and detection of the reaction is known as circulation time.

Substances used are potassium ferrocyanide,² an active radium deposit,³ calcium salts,⁴ magnesium sulfate,⁵ dehydrochloric acid,⁶ saccharin,⁷ various dyes,⁸ ether,⁹ histamine¹⁰ and sodium cyanide.¹¹ These substances have been used chiefly for determining the speed of blood flow in a pathway consisting of peripheral veins, pulmonary arteries and veins, chambers of the heart and part of the arteries originating from the left ventricle. The circulatory pathway from the arm to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Fellows in Medicine, the Mayo Foundation; ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Division of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?