Swan-Ganz Catheters

A Reappraisal for the Use of Pulmonary Artery Catheters

Critical Care Forum
Affiliated to the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM)
Brussels, Belgium
Editor-in-Chief: Jean-Louis Vincent

A reappraisal for the use of pulmonary artery catheters (PACs)
Critical Care, Volume 10, Supplement 3, November 2006
Supplement Editor: Benoit Vallet
Clinique d’Anesthesie et Reanimation,
Hopital Claude Huriez, Lille, France


What are opinion leaders in hemodynamic monitoring saying today about the Swan Ganz catheter and its use in critical care?

Discover the answer by reviewing the newly published articles listed below. Each title opens a link to the full text PDF located on the Critical Care Forum web site.


Supplement Contents

• A reappraisal for the use of pulmonary artery catheters
  Jean-Louis Vincent
• Hemodynamic optimization of sepsis-induced tissue hypoperfusion
  Sergio L Zanotti Cavazzoni and R Phillip Dellinger
• Clinical relevance of data from the pulmonary artery catheter
  Emmanuel Robin, Marion Costecalde, Gilles Lebuffe and Benoit Vallet
• Oxygen uptake-to-delivery relationship: a way to assess adequate flow
  Vincent Caille and Pierre Squara
• What role does the right side of the heart play in circulation?
  Maurizio Cecconi, Edward Johnston and Andrew Rhodes
• Which cardiac surgical patients can benefit from placement of a pulmonary catheter?
  Marco Ranucci
• Which general intensive care unit patients can benefit from placement of the pulmonary artery catheter?
  Didier Payen and Etienne Gayat
• Evidence-based review of the use of the pulmonary artery catheter: impact data and complications.
  Mehrnaz Hadian and Michael R Pinsky