Roundtable: Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart Failure in the ICU: Tackling Difficult Issues
A group of thought leaders in management of pulmonary hypertension gathered by phone on January 27, 2015 to discuss their approach to difficult issues encountered when PAH and RV-failure patients are in the ICU. Read on to learn their perspective as guest editor Deborah Levine, MD, medical director of the PH Center at University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio moderates a discussion among Jeffrey Sager, MD, director of the Cottage Pulmonary Hypertension Center in Santa Barbara, California; Stephen Mathai, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and member of the pulmonary hypertension program; and Todd Bull, MD, director of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program at the University of Colorado and member of the pulmonary and critical care and cardiology sections.