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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain 2005 5(2):61-64; doi:10.1093/bjaceaccp/mki012
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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain | Volume 5 Number 2 2005 © The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia [2005]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions{at}oupjournals.org

Coronary blood flow

Tamilselvi Ramanathan, FRCA, Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia
Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH

Henry Skinner, FRCA, Consultant Anaesthetist
Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, NG5 1PB
Fax: 01159 700739, E-mail: tamilselvir{at}hotmail.com (for correspondence)

The heart has the highest oxygen consumption per tissue mass of all human organs. The resting coronary blood flow is ~250 ml min–1 (0.8 ml min–1 g–1 of heart muscle); this represents 5% of cardiac output.1 Ischaemia results when oxygen demand outstrips supply.


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