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1. Monitoring pulmonary artery wedge pressure in medical patients.
Pulmonary artery wedge pressure is used in the diagnosis and management...function and venous oxygen saturation. Wedge pressure monitoring has been used in the management...Because measuring the pulmonary artery wedge pressure is an Invasive procedure, the value...
September 1, 1996; American Family Physician

2. wedge pressure
The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 wedge pressure, the capillary pressure in the left upper heart chamber (atrium). It is determined by measuring the pressure in a cardiac catheter...
October 1, 1996; The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia

3. eptember 1, 1996 issue)(Correction Notice)
The affiliation of Sajiv Sharma, M.D., author of Monitoring Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure in Medical Patients (September 1, 1996, page 1039) was incorrect as published. Dr. Sharma is a fellow in cardiology at the West...
December 1, 1996; American Family Physician

4. Intravenous B-type natriuretic peptide reduces wedge pressure in decompensated heart failure
...could include diuretics, dobutamine, dopamine, and other chronic cardiovascular drugs. Results. Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) at 3 hours, the study's primary endpoint, was reduced by nesiritide compared with either placebo or nitroglycerin...
January 1, 2001; Formulary

5. Bush pressed to meet protester mom.(News)
Byline: DAVE WEDGE Pressure continued to mount for President Bush to meet with the distraught mom of a soldier killed in Iraq as both Bay State senators backed...
August 12, 2005; The Boston Herald

6. PCWP
PCWP n. see pulmonary (capillary wedge pressure) .
January 1, 2008; A Dictionary of Nursing

7. Natriuretic peptide effective, safe in acute heart failure.(Cardiovascular Medicine)
...221 patients. Ularitide reduced pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, improved dyspnea, and did not worsen renal function...decompensated heart failure and a pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) of at least 18 mm Hg. They were randomized...
December 1, 2005; Internal Medicine News

8. Custom catheters.
A full range of capabilities includes custom balloons for bipolar pacing, wedge pressure, transducer-tipped, and thermodilution infusion catheters. Also included are guidable/steerable units in single- or multi-lumen...
October 1, 2003; Medical Design Technology

9. The role of methylmethacrylate monomer in the formation and haemodynamic outcome of pulmonary fat emboli
...pressure (PAP), pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and bilateral femoral vein levels...while the pulmonary capillary wedge pressure remained unchanged. MMA monomer...pressure, PAP or pulmonary capillary wedge pressure. Our findings suggest that the...
January 1, 1998; Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

10. Nile Therapeutics Announces Positive Interim Data from Phase 2a Study of CD-NP in Patients with Heart Failure.
...Statistically significant reduction in pulmonary capillary wedge pressure -- Statistically significant increase in diuresis...statistically significant reduction in pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP). Infusion with 3 ng/kg/min of CD-NP resulted...
October 14, 2008; PR Newswire