Kasuya Y, Takeda T, Sakamoto T, Hosono K, Hayakawa A, Takenaka M
Department of Anesthesiology, Gifu Prefectural Gifu Hospital.
Masui. 1993 Jul;42(7):1065-8.
Lung lavage, known to be effective for alveolar proteinosis, brings about significant hypoxemia immediately after evacuation of lavage fluid. Impeding blood flow of even a distal branch of a pulmonary artery by using a Swan-Ganz catheter (SGC) successfully prevented this hypoxemia. And this SGC procedure could be safely carried out to make lavage of each lung successively in one day.