Abstract
The use of pulmonary artery (Swan-Ganz) catheters allows routine collection of three types of information:
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monitoring of pulmonary artery pressures, including the balloon-occluded pressure,
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measurement of cardiac output by the thermodilution technique and
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sampling of mixed venous blood for hemoglobin saturation and blood gas analysis. This third element is still sometimes neglected, and our purpose is to emphasize its importance.
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Vincent, J.L. (1985). Hemodynamic and Gasometric Implications of SvO2 Measurements. In: Vincent, J.L. (eds) Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Anaesthesiologie und Intensivmedizin / Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, vol 178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70309-6_15
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