Pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) under attack?

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-54

  Maragiannis, Dimitrios ^a   Lazaros, Georgios ^a   Aloizos, Stavros ^b   Vavouranakis, Emmanuel ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b 401 Army Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Complications; Critical illness; Haemodynamic monitoring; Prognosis; Pulmonary artery catheter

Indexed keywords

ARTERY PUNCTURE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER THROMBOSIS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG INFARCTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; SHOCK;

HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 77349106968     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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