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:anesthesiology and pain medicine
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naomi ono department of anesthesiology, osaka medical college, takatsuki, japan
junko nakahira department of anesthesiology, osaka medical college, takatsuki, japan; department of anesthesiology, osaka medical college, 2-7 daigaku-machi, takatsuki, osaka 569-8686, japan. tel: +81-726831221, fax: +81-726846552
sayuri matsunami department of anesthesiology, osaka medical college, takatsuki, japan
toshiyuki sawai department of anesthesiology, osaka medical college, takatsuki, japan
toshiaki minami department of anesthesiology, osaka medical college, takatsuki, japan
conclusions our case highlights the fact that the tip of the pulmonary artery catheter can easily advance into a peripheral branch of the pulmonary artery and cause pulmonary venous blood to be sampled instead of pulmonary arterial blood. a variety of monitoring techniques are needed to confirm accurate catheter placement. background pressure and waveform at the catheter tip are continuously mo...
