title: Managing critically ill patients with a pulmonary artery catheter.
abstract: No monitoring device has polarized opinion as much as the pulmonary artery catheter. This review will describe the history and the reasons for much of the controversy surrounding this device, and then go on to discuss the available evidence.
authors.affiliation: Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, London.
authors.forename: Sheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.forename: Mervyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Singer
mesh_terms: D002407:Catheterization, Swan-Ganz / Q000592:standards*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D016638:Critical Illness; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*