Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2898525 Cardiology Clinics 2007 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

The Swan-Ganz catheter was developed 35 to 40 years ago for intensive and cardiac care units to allow bedside placement and continuous monitoring and recording of right-sided heart, pulmonary artery, and wedge pressures and reasonably accurate determinations of cardiac output. Considerations for the clinical application of this balloon-tip, flow-directed, multilumen, thermodilution pulmonary artery catheter in the post-ESCAPE era are presented.

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