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Complications of Pulmonary Artery Catheterization in Obstetric Patients
Author(s) -
Rafferty Terence D.,
Berkowitz Richard L.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1002/j.1879-3479.1980.tb00263.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary artery , catheter , cardiac catheterization , balloon catheter , balloon , pulmonary artery catheter , surgery , balloon dilatation , cardiology , cardiac output , hemodynamics
Twenty‐one obstetric patients in whom pulmonary artery catheters had been inserted were studied. Complications were minor in nature and unassociated with adverse sequelae. They included transient premature ventricular contractions on insertion of the catheter in two cases and a ruptured balloon and a positive culture of the catheter tip in one case.