title: Technique, rationale, and usefulness of bedside right heart catheterization in critically ill cardiac patients.
abstract: These discussions are selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Taken from transcriptions, they are prepared by Drs. Martin J. Cline and Hibbard E. Williams, Associate Professors of Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Lloyd H. Smith, Jr., Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004285:Dogs; D006325:Heart Atria; D006339:Heart Rate; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000503:physiopathology