title: [Defence of Swan-Ganz catheters during surgical intensive care (author's transl)].
abstract: It is difficult to apprehend certain precarious hemodynamic states with classical parameters alone; the help of a flow-directed pulmonary artery catheter is necessary in order to define the disease accurately and reach a rational therapy. The problem is easily solved by the use of a Swan-Ganz catheter. The authors have selected 50 observations to help them make clear the indications of this method in surgery and traumatology: it appears necessary to use this method not only in specialized surgery such as valvulary surgery under CEC, but also in the treatment and prevention of non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema and in emergency or bleeding surgery on patients suffering from cardiac disease or renal failure.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods*; D001810:Blood Volume; D002404:Catheterization; D003422:Critical Care; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D012306:Risk
vernacular_title: Plaidoyer pour le cathétérisme droit en réanimation chirurgicale.