Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure

**Semantic type:** Finding

**Definition:** The pressure measured by wedging a pulmonary catheter with an inflated balloon into a small pulmonary arterial branch.

**Synonyms:** - Mean pulmonary capillary wedge pressure - PAOP - PAWP - PCWP - Pulmonary Arterial Wedge Pressure - Pulmonary Artery Occlusion Pressure - Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure