| Swan-Ganz catheter |
A special haemodynamic monitoring device (long thin catheter) that is introduced into a large vein (in the neck, chest or groin) and advanced through the right heart to the pulmonary artery.
Ãâó: www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/factbk2/glossary.htm
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| swan neck c. |
a catheter used in peritoneal dialysis, having its end bent around almost to a U shape to impede catheter migration or extrusion.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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| swan neck d. |
a finger deformity in which the proximal interphalangeal joint is hyperextended and the distal interphalangeal joint is flexed.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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| swan neck s. |
a dynamic splint designed to limit or correct swan-neck deformities; it restricts extension of the proximal interphalangeal joints but permits full flexion.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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| Swan-Ganz c. |
a soft, flow-directed cardiac catheter of the balloon-tip type for measuring pulmonary arterial pressures; it is introduced into the venous system via an internal jugular or subclavian vein and is guided by blood flow into the superior vena cava, the right atrium and ventricle, and into the pulmonary artery.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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