“…Traditional indications for PAC insertion are left ventricular dysfunction, myocardial ischemia, valvular heart disease and assessment of patients receiving vasoactive therapy like sepsis patients. However, PAC use has been associated with significant complications, including arrhythmias that usually resolve spontaneously, pneumothorax, thrombosis and hemorrhage, and case reports of pulmonary valve endocarditis have also been published [ 38 , 39 ]. When PAC is placed in situ , infections are another issue which remains of clinical importance, also distal catheter migration and pulmonary artery rupture are rare but significant complications [ 40-42 ].…”