Misled by the wedge? The Swan-Ganz catheter and left ventricular preload

Chest. 1986 Mar;89(3):427-34. doi: 10.1378/chest.89.3.427.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation*
  • Cardiac Volume
  • Diastole
  • Heart / physiopathology*
  • Heart Atria / physiopathology
  • Heart Diseases / physiopathology
  • Heart Ventricles / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Physiologic
  • Myocardial Contraction
  • Positive-Pressure Respiration
  • Pulmonary Artery / physiopathology
  • Pulmonary Wedge Pressure*