So we use less pulmonary artery catheters - But why?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1820-1822

  Vincent, Jean Louis ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

hemodynamic monitoring; pulmonary artery catheter

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

AUSCULTATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEART FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART TAMPONADE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULSE WAVE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THERMODILUTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 79959649517     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31821f02e5     Document Type: Editorial

References (7)

1. Koo KKY, Sun JCJ, Zhou Q, et al: Pulmonary artery catheters: Evolving rates and reasons for use. Crit Care Med 2011; 39:1613-1618
2. Ospina-Tascon GA, Cordioli RL, Vincent JL: What type of monitoring has been shown to improve outcomes in acutely ill patients? Intensive Care Med 2008; 34:800-820
3. Oba Y, Zaza T: Abandoning daily routine chest radiography in the intensive care unit: meta-analysis. Radiology 2010; 255: 386-395
4. Vincent JL: Understanding cardiac output. Crit Care 2008; 12:174
5. van Beest PA, van Ingen J, Boerma EC, et al: No agreement of mixed venous and central venous saturation in sepsis, independent of sepsis origin. Crit Care 2010; 14:R219
6. Rapoport J, Teres D, Steingrub J, et al: Patient characteristics and ICU organizational factors that influence frequency of pulmonary artery catheterization. JAMA 2000; 283: 2559-2567 (Pubitemid 30324199)
7. Vincent JL, Pinsky MR, Sprung CL, et al: The pulmonary artery catheter: In medio virtus. Crit Care Med 2008; 36:3093-3096