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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 14.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Thorac Surg. 2009 Mar;87(3):803–810. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.11.044

Fig 3.

Fig 3

Blood volume control model. Total blood volume is adjusted to maintain stroke volume (SV), with SVd the desired stroke volume and SVa the actual stroke volume. To adjust SV, blood volume is added to the left ventricle and the model is allowed to return to steady state before blood volume is readjusted.