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What is the dominant mechanism with which infants and young children increase their cardiac output?
ABy increasing ventricular contractility
BBy increasing heart rate
CBy increasing ventricular end-diastolic volume
Why: Infants have relatively noncompliant ventricles, so cardiac output rises mainly by increasing heart rate rather than contractility.
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