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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Clin. 2010 Jul;26(3):567–575. doi: 10.1016/j.ccc.2010.04.007

Table 1.

Microvascular Flow Patterns in Sepsis (after ref 10)

Stagnant blood moving in venules but not capillaries
Empty/Continuous blood moving in venules with no blood in some capillaries and free flow in others
Stagnant/Continuous blood moving in venules with impaired flow in some capillaries and free flow in others
Stagnant/hyperdynamic hyperdynamic flow in venules, stagnant flow in some capillaries and hyperdynamically in others
Hyperdynamic hyperdynamic flow in both venules and capillaries.