Determination of the amount of circulating blood according to the Markowitz method (using the determination of blood sugar before and after intravenous glucose infusion)

“The introduction of the concepts and methods of determining the minute volume of circulating blood and the speed of blood flow into the clinic is so important,” says Lang, “that from the moment these methods were introduced into the clinic, the beginning of a new period of clinical hemodynamics should be considered.” about hemodynamic disorders, the doctrine of the pathology of blood circulation has undergone a deep evolution. Experimental and clinical studies of recent years have proven the existence of depot organs in the body, in which there are certain amounts of blood that does not circulate in the general blood stream.