A central venous pressure line may help monitor fluid replacement.
The chief varieties of haemorrhage are arterial, venous and capillary.
The heart has a pair of venous ostia, often blending into one, and an anterior arterial aorta.
The drug is largely employed in cases of Bright's disease and dropsy from any cause, being especially useful when the liver shares in the general venous congestion.
There is hardly any increase in the intestinal secretion, the drug being emphatically not a hydragogue cathartic. There is no doubt that its habitual use may be a factor in the formation of haemorrhoids; as in the case of all drugs that act powerfully on the lower part of the intestine, without simultaneously lowering the venous pressure by causing increase of secretion from the bowel.