title: Personalizing cardiovascular terminology: measuring preload, contractility, and afterload.
abstract: For many nurses who are the heart (and soul) of institutions, the terms preload, contractility, and afterload are abstract terms learned in school but quickly forgotten. Yet, professional nursing effectiveness, like cardiac function, is ruled by these concepts, and it is important to relate these to the work day in order to gain a better understanding of this vital terminology.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Berro
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D009626:Terminology as Topic