Who benefits from pulmonary artery catheterization?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2805-2806

  Leibowitz, Andrew B ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter; Mortality; Outcome; Pulmonary; Sepsis; Study

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346887092     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000098850.60438.D4     Document Type: Editorial

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