Applying logic to pulmonary artery catheter use

نویسندگان

  • Horst E Kunig
  • Michael R Pinsky
  • Lothar Engelmann
چکیده

Mansour and colleagues recommend not routinely using the pulmonary artery catheter to guide hemodynamic management in the intensive care unit, because the perceived benefits are largely intangible [1]. Pulmonary artery catheter monitoring of the right ventricular ejection fraction (RVef) and of the right ventricular end-diastolic volume (EDV), however, reflects powerful yet underutilized relationships that assess right ventricular performance.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Critical Care

دوره 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008