Managing critically ill patients with a pulmonary artery catheter.
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.
Harvey
Sheila
S
Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, London.
Singer
Mervyn
M
D002407:Catheterization, Swan-Ganz / Q000592:standards*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D016638:Critical Illness; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*