Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về y học đề tài: Pro/con clinical debate: Pulmonary artery catheters increase the morbidity and mortality of intensive care unit patients. | Available online http content 7 2 101 Commentary Pro con clinical debate Pulmonary artery catheters increase the morbidity and mortality of intensive care unit patients Stephen E Lapinsky1 and Guy A Richards2 Associate Director Intensive Care Unit Mount Sinai Hospital and Interdisciplinary Division of Critical Care University of Toronto Canada 2Director of Intensive Care Johannesburg Hospital and Associate Professor Department of Medicine University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa Correspondence Critical Care Forum Editorial Office editorial@ Published online 24 December 2002 Critical Care 2002 7 101-103 DOI cc1872 This article is online at http content 7 2 101 2003 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract One of the highlights of the intensive care unit when I was a resident was the opportunity to place a pulmonary artery catheter and then spend the rest of the day calculating parameters such as oxygen delivery oxygen consumption intrapulmonary shunt fraction and so on. I have noticed in the past few years that the use of these devices in our unit is much less frequent. In our case I am not absolutely certain of the reason for this. Perhaps with time our clinical sense has improved to the point that we do not need the data available perhaps other tests have replaced the pulmonary artery catheter s role or perhaps we are worried about the possible morbidity mortality associated with its use. In the present article we revisit this important debate. Keywords hemodynamics pulmonary artery catheterization pulmonary wedge pressure Swan-Ganz catheterization The scenario A 35-year-old woman is in the intensive care unit ICU with abdominal sepsis secondary to a perforated bowel. Complications include acute respiratory distress syndrome and hypotension requiring mechanical ventilation and inotropes respectively. The only worrying laboratory values are a doubling of the patient s serum .
