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Table 2 Time required to advance the pulmonary artery catheter through the tricuspid and pulmonary valves and incidence of ventricular arrhythmias during passage of each valve

From: An analysis of factors influencing pulmonary artery catheter passage through the tricuspid and pulmonary valves

 

Tricuspid valve

Pulmonary valve

P value

Time duration (s)

9 (5–16)

15 (10–28)

< 0.001

Ventricular arrhythmias n (%)

0 (0)

17 (17)

< 0.001

  1. Data (time duration) were expressed as median (interquartile range)
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