Assist Devices
Knstliche Ventrikel bei fortgeschrittener Herzinsuffizienz Ventricular assist devices for heart failure
... The long term chronic support with LVAD is limited by the incidence of thromboembolism and bleeding. Also infec- tions are a major thread of the patients. The percutaneous site with cannulae connecting the external ...
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Levosimendan may improve survival in patients requiring mechanical assist devices for post cardiotomy heart failure
... Results Of 29 patients treated without levosimendan, 20 could be weaned off the device, 9 survived to intensive care unit discharge, 7 left hospital alive and 3 survived 180 days. All 9 patients treated with levosimendan ...
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Ventricular assist devices for heart failure: a focus on patient selection and complications
... ventricular assist devices have emerged as a valid therapeutic option for advanced heart ...ventricular assist device-related complications are still a serious problem, causing adverse events and ...
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Biomechanical and Gait Analysis of Human Motions using Lift-Assist Devices.
... Lift-Assist Devices in these scenarios can help reduce the risks of injury among industry ...lift-assist devices which can help support the back muscles for repetitive tasks [2, 3] such as ...
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Recombinant activated factor VII (Novo7®) in patients with ventricular assist devices: Case report and review of the current literature
... The effect of rFVIIa on plasmatic coagulation derives from its interaction with tissue factor. Thus, the pro-coagulatory effect is predominantly located in regions where tissues or vessels are injured [3]. This ...
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Optoelectronic system for the determination of blood volume in pneumatic heart assist devices
... ventricular assist devices, as well as other solutions of such pneumatic assist devices, are not equipped with systems monitoring the actual (transient) blood volume inside the ...
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Intra-abdominal hypertension due to heparin - induced retroperitoneal hematoma in patients with ventricle assist devices: report of four cases and review of the literature
... Introduction: Elevated intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) has been identified as a cascade of pathophysiologic changes leading in end-organ failure due to decreasing compliance of the abdomen and the development of abdomen ...
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Mechanical circulatory assist devices: a primer for critical care and emergency physicians
... circulatory assist devices produce either pulsatile or continuous blood ...These devices were too large for an average-sized per- son, had a number of parts that could fail ...
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Modeling payback from research into the efficacy of left ventricular assist devices as destination therapy
... tricular assist device (LVAD) was sanctioned by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2002 (17) and is widely regarded as the most promising alternative for patients not eligible for HT ...
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Management of cardiopulmonary assist devices in critically ill patients using point-of-care transthoracic echocardiography: a case series
... The Impella CP ® device is an axial flow type of tempo- rary ventricular assist device that, typically, is placed in the femoral artery and positioned across the aortic valve. This allows it to withdraw blood from ...
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Cost effectiveness of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) for patients with advanced heart failure : analysis of the British NHS Bridge to Transplant (BTT) program
... We also undertook a number of sensitivity analyses to explore the impact of differing survival estimates for the medical management patients using: 1 The British BTDB data for all medica[r] ...
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Ventricular assist devices as bridge to heart transplantation: impact on post transplant infections
... pulsatile-flow devices, which have a significantly higher risk of becoming in- fected that the continuous-flow devices, so that different outcomes might have been observed if these new devices would ...
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Cardiac Energetics in Presence of Lung Assist Devices: In Silico Study
... tolerable levels. However, in particular cases, the thoracic artificial lung (TAL) can be regarded as a viable alternative to mechanical ventilation (MV). We aim at studying the effects of mechanical ventilators and ...
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Pediatric ventricular assist devices: current challenges and future prospects
... ventricular assist device ...continuous-flow devices in ...refinements, devices currently in development will broaden the range of options available to ...continuous-flow devices in children, ...
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Outcomes of patients with continuous flow left ventricular assist device undergoing emergency endovascular treatment for atraumatic bleeding
... ventricular assist devices on antiaggregant/coagulant therapy, admitted to our hospital for uncorrectable symptomatic anemia; CT-angiography and diagnostic angiography confirmed the presence of atraumatic ...
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Is there a difference in bleeding after left ventricular assist device implant: centrifugal versus axial?
... Background: Continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices (CF-LVAD) have become the standard of care for patients with end stage heart failure. Device reliability has increased, bringing the potential for ...
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Anaesthetic Challenges in Cardiac Interventional Procedures
... Typically there is a control station and procedure room. The control station is shielded from radiation. The an- aesthesiologist should familiarize him or herself with each room and particularly the location of gas ...
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Stroke and Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
... tricular assist devices [(LVAD), these devices have a portable, self-contained, external pump which pushes blood from the left ventricle to the aorta] while noncardic anesthesiologists are unfamiliar ...
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Do Continuous Flow LVADS Improve Diastolic Dysfunction?
... ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy has evolved as an integral component of advanced heart failure ...Ventricular assist devices are now used as a bridge to recov- ery/decision/transplant or as ...
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Extracorporal hemodialysis with acute or decompensated chronical hepatic failure Extrakorporale artifizielle Leberuntersttzungssysteme bei akutem Leberversagen oder einer akuten Dekompensation eines chronischen Leberleidens
... Overall 15 publications on the medical efficacy of extra- corporal liver assist devices were detected and included in the further analysis: Two short and one long HTA reports plus one up[r] ...
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