The assault on the Swan-Ganz catheter: A case history of constrained technology, constrained bedside clinicians, and constrained monetary expenditures

Chest

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1379-1386

  Weil, Max Harry ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWAN GANZ CATHETER;

EID: 0031954755     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.113.5.1379     Document Type: Article

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