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The standard pulmonary artery catheter has two lumens (Swan-Ganz) and is equipped with an inflatable balloon at the tip, which facilitates its placement into the pulmonary artery through the flow of blood. The balloon, when inflated, causes the catheter to "wedge" in a small pulmonary blood vessel.
Hoover's sign in pulmonology is one of two signs named for Charles Franklin Hoover. [ 1 ] It refers to inward movement of the lower rib cage during inspiration, [ 2 ] - instead of outward as is normal - implying a flat, but functioning, diaphragm, often associated with COPD . [ 3 ]
In 1990, with six employees and annual sales of $6 million, Sweetwater had outgrown Surack's home and moved into its own commercial building at 5335 Bass Road, [9] [10] and Sweetwater's growth over the next several years earned it a place on Inc. magazine's ranking of America's fastest growing companies in 1993, 1994, and 1995.
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Sweetwater Creek State Park is a 2,549 acres (10.32 km 2) Georgia state park in east Douglas County, 15 miles (24 km) from downtown Atlanta. The park is named after Sweetwater Creek which runs through it.
Wiggers diagram of various events of a cardiac cycle, with 2nd heart sound at bottom.. A split S2 is a finding upon auscultation of the S2 heart sound. [1]It is caused when the closure of the aortic valve (A 2) and the closure of the pulmonary valve (P 2) are not synchronized during inspiration.
Pulmonary hypertension is defined as a mean PAP of at least 20 mm Hg (3300 Pa) at rest, and PAH is defined as precapillary pulmonary hypertension (i.e. mean PAP ≥ 20 mm Hg with pulmonary arterial occlusion pressure [PAOP] ≤ 15 mm Hg and pulmonary vascular resistance [PVR] > 3 Wood Units). [58]
Sweetwater is a municipality in and the seat of Nolan County, Texas, United States. [4] It is 123 miles southeast of Lubbock and 40 miles west of Abilene . Its population was 10,622 at the 2020 census .