Pulmonary-artery catheterization aids the diagnosis and management of numerous cardiovascular illnesses, including pulmonary hypertension, cardiogenic shock, mixed shock states, cardiac tamponade, and ...

We evaluated the relationship of benefits and risks of PACs in 1000 patients with established acute lung injury in a randomized trial comparing hemodynamic management guided by a PAC with hemodynamic ...

Australians undergoing open-heart surgery could soon benefit from safer, simpler care and get home earlier thanks to the ...

Use of the pulmonary artery catheter decreased by 65 percent in the U.S. between 1993 and 2004, possibly due to growing evidence that this invasive procedure does not reduce the risk of death for ...

In normal patients, the right ventricular (RV) systolic pressure and the pulmonary artery (PA) systolic pressures are equal (15-20 mmHg), while the diastolic pressures differ, ie, the RV diastolic ...

In this study, we quantified the risk and described the risk factors for complications associated with arterial catheterization in critically ill children. We already know that central venous ...