Evaluation study of congestive heart failure & pulmonary artery catheterization effectiveness( ESCAPE)

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Introduction

26 research centers across North America

433 patients with severe symptomatic heart failure, despite treatment

pulmonary artery catheter guided therapy vs therapy based on clinical status.

Results: no advantage for pulmonary-artery catheterization.

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  1. Binanay C, Califf RM, Hasselblad V, O'Connor CM, Shah MR, Sopko G, Stevenson LW, Francis GS, Leier CV, Miller LW; ESCAPE Investigators and ESCAPE Study Coordinators. Evaluation study of congestive heart failure and pulmonary artery catheterization effectiveness: the ESCAPE trial. JAMA. 2005 Oct 5;294(13):1625-33. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16204662