Wedging the Pulmonary Artery Catheter: Changes in Left Atrial and Pulmonary Artery Pressures and Risk for Perforation

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 311-314

  Settergren, Göran ^a   Angdin, Monika ^a   Anderson, Russell E ^a   Liska, Jan ^a   Lundberg, Jon ^b   Törnberg, Daniel C ^a   Weitzberg, Eddie ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aneurysm; atrial pressure; catheterization; false; pulmonary artery catheter; pulmonary artery perforation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART OUTPUT MEASUREMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; PULMONARY ARTERY INJURY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 33646907663     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2005.05.022     Document Type: Article

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