Abstract
The floating pulmonary artery catheter (Swan-Ganz catheter) is designed for hemodynamic monitoring. In addition there are various possibilities to apply such catheters for cardiac pacing and/or recording of the intracardiac electrocardiogram. Special pulmonary artery catheters are equipped with electrodes at various distances from the tip, which can be used for ventricular or atrial pacing. Furthermore a special pacemaker has been developed which uses the fluid column of the pulmonary artery catheter as an unipolar intracardiac pacemaker. Finally a special version of the pulmonary artery catheter has been designed with a ventricular port. A very thin pacemaker electrode can be advanced through this port into the right ventricular cavity. These three pacemaker system will be described and the advantages and disadvantages of each system will be discussed.
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Simoons, M.L., Kint, P.P., Spaa, W. (1985). Use of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter for Cardiac Pacing and Recording of the Intracardiac Electrocardiogram. In: Vincent, J.L. (eds) Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Anaesthesiologie und Intensivmedizin / Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, vol 178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70309-6_30
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