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Lack Of Effectiveness Of The Pulmonary Artery Catheter In Cardiac Surgery, Nanette Schwann Mar 2013

Lack Of Effectiveness Of The Pulmonary Artery Catheter In Cardiac Surgery, Nanette Schwann

Nanette M Schwann MD

Lack of effectiveness of the pulmonary artery catheter in cardiac surgery. Schwann NM, Hillel Z, Hoeft A, Barash P, Möhnle P, Miao Y, Mangano DT. Source Allentown Anesthesia Associates and the Leigh Valley Healthcare Network, Department of Anesthesiology, 1245 Cedar Crest Blvd., Suite 300, Allentown, PA 18103, USA. schwann@mac.com Abstract BACKGROUND: The pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) continues to be used for monitoring of hemodynamics in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery despite concerns raised in other settings regarding both effectiveness and safety. Given the relative paucity of data regarding its use in CABG patients, and given entrenched practice …


Pulmonary Artery Catheter For Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: Does It Harm Our Patients? Primum Non Nocere, Eugene A. Hessel, Ioanna Apostolidou Oct 2011

Pulmonary Artery Catheter For Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: Does It Harm Our Patients? Primum Non Nocere, Eugene A. Hessel, Ioanna Apostolidou

Nanette M Schwann MD

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