Pulmonary Artery Catheter Utilization: The Use, Misuse, or Abuse

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 295-299

  Vender, Jeffery S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APACHE; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; CAPNOGRAPHY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; PULSE OXIMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWAN GANZ CATHETER; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS;

EID: 33646919523     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2006.03.018     Document Type: Editorial

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