title: Hemodynamic waveform analysis.
abstract: The pulmonary artery catheter provides the opportunity to acquire indirectly important diagnostic and therapeutic information about the function of the two pumping chambers of the heart--the right and left ventricles--during the two phases of the cardiac cycle--systole and diastole. Appropriate use of hemodynamic data acquired via the pulmonary artery catheter requires the accurate measurement, analysis, and interpretation of hemodynamic pressure waveforms.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Cardiovascular Research and Education, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Daily
mesh_terms: D002407:Catheterization, Swan-Ganz / Q000451:nursing* / Q000592:standards*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011669:Pulmonary Wedge Pressure