No Evidence for Routine Use of Pulmonary Artery Catheter in CHF - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
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BOSTON, Oct. 4 - Pulmonary artery catheterization does more harm than good when used in patients who are hospitalized for severe congestive heart failure, researchers here reported.
Medical therapy by itself effectively reduced volume overload, but the addition of pulmonary artery catheterization significantly increased in-hospital adverse events -- 47 versus 25 (P=0.04), according to findings reported in the Oct. 5 Journal of the American Medical Association.
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