Pulmonary artery catheter
Cateterismo cardíaco derecho
- Date
- 1970 · confidence high
- Place
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Credited to
- William Ganz y Jeremy Swan
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Jeremy Swan and William Ganz developed the pulmonary artery (Swan-Ganz) catheter, with a balloon tip that allows direct bedside measurement of heart pressures.
What it led to
- Hemodynamic monitoring in intensive care
- Management of shock and acute heart attack
- Routine right heart catheterization
- Later thermodilution catheters