Trends in pulmonary artery catheter use for cardiac surgery, 2013-2023: Analysis of Australian medicare data

Luke A Perry^{1

2}, Andrew Silvers^{1

2}, Jayme Bennetts^{1

3}, Julian Smith^{3

4}, Lisa Q Rong⁵, Mario Gaudino⁶, Lachlan F Miles^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Victorian Cardiac Anaesthesia Research Laboratory, Victorian Heart Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Victorian Heart Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Victorian Heart Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic Division, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, USA.
⁶ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, USA.
⁷ Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁸ Department of Anaesthesia, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.

PMID: 40236656
PMCID: PMC11994296
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100100

Trends in pulmonary artery catheter use for cardiac surgery, 2013-2023: Analysis of Australian medicare data

Luke A Perry et al. Crit Care Resusc. 2025.

. 2025 Mar 28;27(2):100100.

doi: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100100. eCollection 2025 Jun.

Authors

Luke A Perry^{1

2}, Andrew Silvers^{1

2}, Jayme Bennetts^{1

3}, Julian Smith^{3

4}, Lisa Q Rong⁵, Mario Gaudino⁶, Lachlan F Miles^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Victorian Cardiac Anaesthesia Research Laboratory, Victorian Heart Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Victorian Heart Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Victorian Heart Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic Division, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, USA.
⁶ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, USA.
⁷ Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁸ Department of Anaesthesia, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.

PMID: 40236656
PMCID: PMC11994296
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2025.100100

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiac anaesthesia; Cardiac surgery; Care variability; Epidemiology.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Geographic variation in pulmonary artery catheter use by state.

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