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Abstract Intensive Care Medicine is concerned with the provision of life support and body systems support in patients who require intensive monitoring as they are critically ill specially those whose condition is potentially reversible and with a good chance of survival with intensive care support of underlying condition that can be overcome. ‘To fill or not to fill’, that is the question frequently faced by physicians caring for haemodynamically unstable critically ill patients. To successfully predict fluid responsiveness, two requirements must be met: on one hand a change in preload must be generated as well as measuring the subsequent changes in SV or its derivatives such as pulse pressure on the other hand. |