A patient has a heart rate of 70 beats/min and a stroke volume of 60 mL. What is the cardiac output?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. 4.2 L/min
- Step 1: Cardiac output .
- Step 2: mL/min L/min.
Answer
4.2 L/min.
Why not the others: 4200 L/min: The units were not converted from mL to L. 1.3 L/min: Heart rate and stroke volume were added. 8.57 L/min: The stroke volume was divided by the heart rate.
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