Is there still a place for the Swan–Ganz catheter? Yes
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2018 at "Intensive Care Medicine"
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-018-5158-0
Abstract: Swan–Ganz catheter use in the intensive care unit (ICU) is an endless matter of debate. In the past decade echocardiography has emerged as a major tool for understanding mechanisms of shock. We do not deny… read more here.
Keywords: hemodynamics; ganz catheter; swan ganz; ganz ... See more keywords
Percutaneous removal of a knotted Swan–Ganz catheter
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2021 at "Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics"
DOI: 10.1007/s12928-021-00822-2
Abstract: A 48-year-old man who had undergone aortic valve surgery 1 week previously became hemodynamically unstable in the intensive care unit. His physician decided to insert a Swan–Ganz catheter (SGC) (Edwards Lifesciences, Tokyo, Japan) without fluoroscopic… read more here.
Keywords: ganz catheter; swan ganz; knot; removal ... See more keywords
Difficult removal: a Swan-Ganz catheter coiled on the central venous catheter
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2020 at "Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery"
DOI: 10.1186/s13019-020-01149-4
Abstract: Background The Swan-Ganz catheter plays an important role in gaining understanding of cardiac pathophysiology and in the hemodynamic monitoring of critically ill patients. Difficult removal of the Swan-Ganz catheter is a rare but serious complication.… read more here.
Keywords: ganz catheter; catheter; swan ganz; difficult removal ... See more keywords
Missing Swan Ganz Catheter
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2018 at "Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia"
DOI: 10.4103/aca.aca_241_17
Abstract: Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia | Volume 21 | Issue 4 | October‐December 2018 462 necessitates the use of CPB that might compound the situation. Moreover, the intraoperative preservation of an antegrade pulmonary flow necessitates the… read more here.
Keywords: ganz catheter; swan ganz; missing swan;