Current use of the pulmonary artery catheter

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 249-253

  Greenberg, Steven B ^a   Murphy, Glenn S ^a   Vender, Jeffery S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Outcome benefits; Pulmonary artery catheter

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; INFUSION FLUID; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DECISION MAKING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 68049116850     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e32832b302b     Document Type: Review

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