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 ...

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 ...

If patients receiving intensive care or undergoing major surgery develop excessively high or low blood pressures, they could suffer severe organ dysfunction. It's not enough for their care team to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeremy Swan was a world-renowned cardiologist and the co-inventor in 1968 of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter. His invention, made with a student of his called Willie Ganz, revolutionised heart surgery.

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 ...