A reappraisal for the use of pulmonary artery catheters.docVIP

Available online /content/10/S3/S1 Introduction A reappraisal for the use of pulmonary artery catheters Jean-Louis Vincent Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Corresponding author: Jean-Louis Vincent, jlvincen@ulb.ac.be Published: 27 November 2006 Critical Care 2006, 10(Suppl 3):S1 (doi:10.1186/cc4828) This article is online at /content/10/S3/S1 ? 2006 BioMed Central Ltd The history of the pulmonary artery catheter spans almost 90 years from the first reported cardiac catheterization by Werner Forssmann (on himself!) in