AWhat changed
Reported balloon-tipped flow-directed catheter permitting bedside right-heart and wedge-pressure measurements.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact six-author 1970 New England Journal of Medicine report. Its first 100 catheterizations do not establish benefit across all critically ill patients, and later thermodilution, monitoring protocols, complications and outcome trials remain separate.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact six-author 1970 New England Journal of Medicine report. Its first 100 catheterizations do not establish benefit across all critically ill patients, and later thermodilution, monitoring protocols, complications and outcome trials remain separate.
Contributors
- H. J. C. Swan · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- William Ganz · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- James S. Forrester · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Harold S. Marcus · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- George Diamond · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- David Chonette · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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