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© The European Society of Cardiology 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Lessons from ESCAPE: the PAC may not kill, but when should we consider ‘tailored’ therapy?

Sharon A. Hunt

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Corresponding author. Tel: +1 650 498 6605. E-mail address: shunt{at}cvmed.stanford.edu

This article summarizes the results of the recent ESCAPE trial of the use of pulmonary artery catheter for haemodynamic monitoring and clinical decision making in patients with acute heart failure and proposes several clinical situations not included in the trial, which may be appropriate situations to use such monitoring.

Key Words: Pulmonary artery catheter • Decompensated heart failure


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