Hebert K A, Glancy D L
Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112.
Heart Dis Stroke. 1994 Jul-Aug;3(4):196-200.
The Swan-Ganz catheter provides a relatively easy means of obtaining a wealth of information about intracardiac pressures and flows. The catheter also is useful for intracardiac pacing. Because any invasive procedure entails some risk, albeit small in the case of the Swan-Ganz catheter, insertion of a catheter usually is reserved for hemodynamically unstable patients and/or those in whom information relevant to clinical management can be obtained only by this means. In such circumstances the catheter has been extraordinarily useful, and further refinements undoubtedly will make it even more useful in the future.
Swan-Ganz导管提供了一种相对简便的方法来获取大量有关心内压力和血流的信息。该导管也可用于心内起搏。由于任何侵入性操作都存在一定风险，尽管Swan-Ganz导管的风险较小，但通常仅在血流动力学不稳定的患者和/或那些只能通过这种方式获得与临床管理相关信息的患者中插入导管。在这种情况下，该导管一直非常有用，未来进一步的改进无疑将使其更加有用。
