Wedge Pressure

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
WP
Pronunciation
/wɛʤ ˈprɛʃər/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. The PAC allows continuous display of pulmonary artery pressure, and variables such as cardiac output and pulmonary artery occlusion pressure, or wedge pressure, can be intermittently obtained.
  2. Central venous pressure and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure also decreased remarkably.
  3. The variation of R wave amplitude has little relation with cardiac output, heart pumping function, especially with pulmonary wedge pressure.
  4. Relationship between pulmonary wedge pressure ( PWP ) and left atrial pressure ( LAP ) was studied in28 children of congenital heart disease.
  5. There were placed six cavity Swan-Ganz catheter. The United States Baxter-2 Continuous cardiac output monitoring Multifunction Monitor was used. Determination of cardiac index ( CI ) and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure ( PCWP ).

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