The patient you are taking care of in the cardiac intensive care unit has a diagnosis of decompensated heart failure and is having a pulmonary artery catheter inserted to help guide medical therapy....

The patient you are taking care of in the cardiac intensive care unit has a diagnosis of decompensated heart failure and is having a pulmonary artery catheter inserted to help guide medical therapy. Describe the process you will use to obtain pulmonary artery systolic, diastolic, and wedge pressure measurements. Discuss the correlation between pulmonary artery pressure measurements and the patient’s symptoms and physical assessment findings. What is your role in assuring that the pulmonary catheter is properly maintained and that the patient is free from catheter-related complications?