Another point of view: No Swan song for the pulmonary artery catheter

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1123-1124

  Levin, Phillip D ^a   Sprung, Charles L ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN SATURATION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; SHORT SURVEY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CRITICAL CARE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 18344396864     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000163239.11211.02     Document Type: Short Survey

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