Monitoring to ensure reliability of hemodynamic pressure readings

Work is currently being done to make sure that other factors affecting reliable and valid pulmonary artery readings do not exist. Nurses have a tremendous responsibility to their patients who have pulmonary artery catheters. They must not only be knowledgeable but also must have good surveillance skills. Because there is such a discrepancy between the amount of knowledge deemed necessary in the literature and that which is actually demanded in practice, this study should be expanded and replicated. Intensive care nurses must do all they can to maintain a critically ill patient's health, and one way in which to attempt this is through adequate knowledge and treatment using pulmonary artery catheters.