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Review
. 2006 Aug;67(8):421-6.
doi: 10.12968/hmed.2006.67.8.21977.

Managing critically ill patients with a pulmonary artery catheter

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Managing critically ill patients with a pulmonary artery catheter

Sheila Harvey et al. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2006 Aug.

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.

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