Abstract
ALTHOUGH USE of the pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) continues to decline because of a lack of robust evidence proving benefit and/or presence of some evidence supporting the notion that it may cause harm, it continues to be used by many clinicians.1-3 Complications of PAC insertion and/or use thankfully are rare yet can be deadly.4 PAC entrapment is quite rare and usually occurs during cardiac surgery when the catheter is inadvertently sutured to a portion of the heart.5 The authors report here 2 cases of PAC entrapment in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
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