title: Pulmonary artery flow-directed catheter use in the obstetric patient.
abstract: Pulmonary artery flow-directed (Swan-Ganz) catheters permit continuous central hemodynamic monitoring of unstable patients. They provide important information about left ventricular function, because left ventricular end-diastolic pressure is reflected by measurement of the pulmonary capillary wedge pressure. Furthermore, thermodilution-tip models permit rapid determination of cardiac output. This report presents 3 different types of problems in obstetric patients in whom management was greatly facilitated by the use of Swan-Ganz catheters.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004461:Eclampsia / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D014927:Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology