[HSF] Pulmonary Artery Catheters !

[gabi ford]

>From: "Nasser F. Abou'Seada" <nfaabouseada at gmail.com>
>How frequently do members of the forum use PA Catheter ?
>- Comments ??

Our open heart patients do not routinely get a PA catheter.  Only very high 
risk patients and often valves get an introducer -- and most of the time 
even they come back without a PA cath.
Maybe 5 - 10 patients per month...and our team does 3 or 4 per day.

Gabi, RN