In providing care to a patient with a pulmonary artery catheter for hemodynamic monitoring, the nurse correlates the pulmonary artery occlusive pressure (PAOP) to which hemodynamic parameter?

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The pulmonary artery occlusive pressure (PAOP), also known as the pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), is used to estimate left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and thus reflects left heart preload. It does not directly measure right heart preload, pulmonary vascular resistance, or systemic vascular resistance.

In Providing Care to a Patient with a Pulmonary Artery