Detection of early signs of circulatory insufficiency in patients with chronic carbon disulfide intoxication

In 27 men who had undergone chronic intoxication with carbon disulfide, the shock ejection, heart rate, minute blood volume, phase analysis of left ventricular systole were examined; the amplitude-time parameters were determined: the rate of cardiac output, the rate of pressure rise and the rate of cardiac relaxation. The parameters of hemodynamics at rest and their change in response to increasing static strengthening of the right hand were studied. The most informative parameters for detecting heart failure in chronic carbon disulfide intoxication were amplitude-time parameters.