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an info sheet describing the different stages of heart health and how it can be used to treat

Right Heart Catheterization Cheat Sheet: Interpretation of Pressures and Waveforms Direct measurements ● Central venous pressure (CVP) ● Right-sided intracardiac pressures (RA, RV) ● Pulmonary arterial pressure (PAp) ● Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) ● Cardiac output (CO) ● Mixed venous oxyhemoglobin saturation (SvO2) Indirect measurements ● Systemic vascular resistance (770-1500 d/s/cm5) (SVR = 80 x [mean artery pressure – CVP]/CO) ● Pulmonary vascular resistance (20-120 d/s/cm5)…

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4 Cardiac Catheterization Nursing Care Plans

Cardiac catheterization is an invasive procedure in which a small flexible catheter is inserted through a vein or artery (usually the femoral vein) into the heart for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

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You’ve Been Told You Need a Cardiac Cath Procedure. Now What? | Stony Brook Medicine

Catheters — flexible, ultrathin tubes — have changed the way heart disease is diagnosed and treated. What once required large incisions and long recovery time can now be accomplished with tiny incisions, less pain and faster recovery. Here, Robert Pyo, MD, Director of the Stony Brook Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, answers your cardiac catheterization FAQs.

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