Pericardial placement of a pulmonary artery catheter
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The pulmonary artery catheter.
Clinical Medicine Vol 2 No 2 March/April 2002 101 The flow-directed pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) has been in clinical use since its introduction by Swan and colleagues in 19701. During that time it has become widely used in critical care units throughout the world and is now the most commonly utilised form of flow monitoring. The haemodynamic data obtained with a PAC are used to monitor and ...
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Corresponding author: Ho-Geol Ryu, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, 101, Daehag-ro, Jongro-gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2072-2065, Fax: 82-2-747-5639, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.00281.x