The Swan-Ganz pulmonary-artery catheter (PAC) has long been used at many centers to guide treatment decisions according to hemodynamic responses, despite controversy over whether the technique ...

A Swan-Ganz catheterization is a type of pulmonary artery catheterization procedure. It’s a diagnostic test used to determine whether any hemodynamic, or blood flow-related, abnormalities exist in the ...

Intensivist Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD, MPH, had spent two decades focused on keeping patients alive in the intensive care unit (ICU). But it wasn't until a nurse shamed her for placing a dialysis ...

Central venous catheterization (CVC) is estimated to be performed in millions of patients per year. Swan–Ganz catheters used for CVC are most often inserted into the internal jugular vein and during ...

Dr. William Ganz, who survived a Nazi labor camp to become an internationally recognized cardiologist who co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter for monitoring heart conditions and who was one of the ...