GA Westphal
Lecturer at Universidade da Região de Joinville (Univille). Preceptor of the Medical Residency Program in Intensive Care Medicine at Hospital Municipal São José de Joinville and Clinical Director of Unimed’s Hospital Center. Healthcare, teaching, and research activities.
Title: Respiratory variation in blood pressure and its relation with respiratory variations of the recordings of central venous pressure and plethysmography generated by pulse oximeters in the immediate postoperative period of cardiac surgery
Advisor: Luiz Francisco Poli de Figueiredo
Date of defense: 09/18/2006
Westphal GA, Silva E, Gonçalves AR, Caldeira Filho M, Poli de Figueiredo LF. Pulse oximetry wave variation as a noninvasive tool to assess volume status in cardiac surgery. Clinics (São Paulo). 2009;64(4):337-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1807-59322009000400012
Westphal GA, Garrido A del P, Almeida DP de, Rocha e Silva M, Poli de Figueiredo LF. Pulse pressure respiratory variation as an early marker of cardiac output fall in experimental hemorrhagic shock. Artificial Organs 2007;31(4):284-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1594.2007.00377.x
Westphal GA, Silva E, Caldeira Filho M, Roman Gonçalves AR, Poli de Figueiredo LF. Variation in amplitude of central venous pressure curve induced by respiration is a useful tool to reveal fluid responsiveness in postcardiac surgery patients. Shock 2006;26(2):140-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.shk.0000227439.76418.7d