pulmonary pressure
11pulmonary capillary wedge pressure — n WEDGE PRESSURE abbr. PCWP …
12pulmonary wedge pressure — n WEDGE PRESSURE …
13Pulmonary wedge pressure — Diagram of Pulmonary artery catheter The pulmonary capillary wedge pressure or PCWP (also called the pulmonary wedge pressure or PWP, or pulmonary artery occlusion pressure or PAOP) is the pressure measured by wedging a pulmonary catheter with an …
14Pulmonary surfactant — Diagram of the alveoli with both cross section and external view Pulmonary surfactant is a surface active lipoprotein complex (phospholipoprotein) formed by type II alveolar cells. The proteins and lipids that surfactant comprises have both a… …
15Pulmonary artery catheter — In medicine pulmonary artery catheterization (PAC) is the insertion of a catheter into a pulmonary artery. Its purpose is diagnostic; it is used to detect heart failure or sepsis, monitor therapy, and evaluate the effects of drugs. The pulmonary… …
16Pulmonary valve — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = valva trunci pulmonalis GraySubject = 138 GrayPage = 532 Caption = Anterior (frontal) view of the opened heart. White arrows indicate normal blood flow. Caption2 = Heart seen from above. Width = 300 |… …
17pulmonary hypertension — a condition in which there is raised blood pressure within the blood vessels supplying the lungs (the pulmonary artery blood pressure is normally much lower than the pressure within the aorta and its branches). Pulmonary hypertension may… …
18Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure — The Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (abbreviated PCWP), as measured by a Swan Ganz catheter, is the pressure measured in a pulmonary artery after occlusion of that artery. Because of the large compliance of the pulmonary circulation, it… …
19pressure — 1. A stress or force acting in any direction against resistance. 2. (P, frequently followed by a subscript indicating location)In physics and physiology, the force per unit area exerted by a gas or liquid against the walls of its container or… …
20Pressure volume diagram — Thermodynamics …
