{"id":2440,"date":"2010-12-21T22:03:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T22:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/carsg\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:08:27","slug":"carsg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/carsg\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Indications for Use of the Swan-Ganz Catheter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Swan-Ganz balloon flotation catheter was introduced\u00a0\u00a0in clinical use by H. J. C. Swan and William Ganz in 1970.\u00a0Since then, the catheter has been used in many kinds of clinical fields, such as critical care medicine, cardiovascular surgery, anesthesia, and cardiology, because of its useful functions.<br \/>\n<!--more--> The Swan-Ganz Catheter (SGC) can easily advance into the pulmonary artery with its flow-directed balloon. The central venous pressure (CVP), the pulmonary artery pressure (PAP), and the pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) can be measured, and cardiac output is obtained by thermodilution method.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Current Indications for Use of the Swan-Ganz Catheter<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Not indicated as routine pulmonary artery catheterization in high-risk cardiac\u00a0and noncardiac patients<\/li>\n<li>Indicated in patients with cardiogenic shock during supportive therapy<\/li>\n<li>Indicated in patients with discordant right and left ventricular failure<\/li>\n<li>Indicated in patients with severe chronic heart failure requiring inotropic,\u00a0vasopressor, and vasodilator therapy<\/li>\n<li>Indicated in patients with suspected \u201cpseudosepsis\u201d (high cardiac output,\u00a0low systemic vascular resistance, elevated right atrial and pulmonary\u00a0capillary wedge pressures)<\/li>\n<li>Indicated in some patients with potentially reversible systolic heart failure\u00a0such as fulminant myocarditis and peripartum cardiomyopathy<\/li>\n<li>Indicated for the hemodynamic differential diagnosis of pulmonary\u00a0hypertension<\/li>\n<li>Indicated to assess response to therapy in patients with precapillary and\u00a0mixed types of pulmonary hypertension<\/li>\n<li>Indicated for the transplantation workup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>References:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>Chatterjee K. The Swan-Ganz catheters: past, present, and future. A viewpoint. Circulation. 2009 Jan 6;119(1):147-52.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/19124674\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Greenberg SB, Murphy GS, Vender JS. Current use of the pulmonary artery catheter. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2009 Jun;15(3):249-53.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/19387340\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Created: Dec 21, 2010.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1264,1265,1266,74,73,1267,1156,1164],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiology","tag-cateter","tag-catheter","tag-ganz","tag-indicaciones","tag-indications","tag-swan","tag-use","tag-uso"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9344,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/9344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}