The long and short of pulmonary artery catheter monitoring and catheter-related infections: is less still best?

Review

Priscilla S A Sarinas et al. Crit Care Med. 2003 May.

. 2003 May;31(5):1585-6.

doi: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000059434.07004.CF.

No abstract available

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