mechanical circulatory support devices
Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices for Cardiogenic Shock: State of the Art
... Hemodynamic monitoring: after collecting information from clinical examination, CVP, arterial blood pressure, heart rate, gas analysis, echocardiography and minimally invasive cardiac output assessment, in most cases it ...
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Mechanical circulatory support in the new era: an overview
... biventricular support configurations must be carried out, while the continued development of RVAD‐specific devices and rotary total artificial heart technology should be completed in par- allel to source an ...
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Advanced mechanical circulatory support for post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock: a 20-year outcome analysis in a non-transplant unit
... advanced mechanical circulatory support (AMCS). AMCS devices such as extracorporeal membrane oxy- genation (ECMO) and ventricular assist devices (VAD) have been used to salvage patients ...
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A 20-year multicentre outcome analysis of salvage mechanical circulatory support for refractory cardiogenic shock after cardiac surgery
... AMCS devices are expensive [9, 19, 20] and this, coupled with a potentially prolonged length of stay in ICU, means that cost is an important factor in the decision-making process, particularly within the UK ...
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Mechanical circulatory support for advanced heart failure : are we about to witness a new "gold standard"?
... centrifugal devices seem to play a major role for the occurrence of this syndrome leading to destruction of vWF with subsequent bleeding and thromboembolic events ...with mechanical demolition being the ...
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Contemporary trends in use of mechanical circulatory support in patients with acute MI and cardiogenic shock
... two devices were at disposal simultaneously, and given the striking difference in the patient population receiving MCS across the two time periods, we compared early use of IABP and early use of Impella CP to ...
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Clinical review: mechanical circulatory support for cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction
... newer devices are referred to as second-generation ...latest devices, third-generation VADs, spin and levitate the impeller within an electromagnetic fi eld, reducing blood trauma and prolonging serviceable ...
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Cardiac Rotational Mechanics As a Predictor of Myocardial Recovery in Heart Failure Patients Undergoing Chronic Mechanical Circulatory Support A Pilot Study
... assist devices (LVAD) have established their role in improving the quality and length of life in the advanced heart failure (HF) patient 1, 2 ...LVAD support, is the improvement of the cardiac function to ...
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Ethical challenges with the left ventricular assist device as a destination therapy
... short-term mechanical circulatory device could be turned ...short-term mechanical circulatory devices or deactivating ventricular assist devices including an LVAD after the ...
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Mechanical circulatory assist devices: a primer for critical care and emergency physicians
... The TAH is designed to replace the cardiac structures completely and to provide long-term support as a BTT. A TAH is considered for those patients in whom biventricu- lar support is required. The SynCardia ...
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Pediatric ventricular assist devices: current challenges and future prospects
... of mechanical circulatory support has made great strides in the preceding 2 ...pediatric mechanical circulatory support has lagged behind that of adults, the gap between them is ...
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Mechanical versus manual chest compressions for cardiac arrest: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... of mechanical devices used, timing of device application, CPR quality of manual chest compres- sion and post-resuscitation ...of mechanical devices (LUCAS, AutoPulse and Thumper) for OHCA ...
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Mechanical chest compression devices: current and future roles
... Several case series demonstrate the feasibility of using the device in the out of hospital[18] and in- hospital[19-20] settings. Axelsson et al reported their experience with introducing LUCAS into two emergency medical ...
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Preterm Circulatory Support Is More Complex Than Just Blood Pressure
... having been performed, many NICUs have had protocols for keeping MBP above a number such as 30 mm Hg. That ischemic brain injury is still a problem should suggest that circulatory support is more ...
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Mechanical behaviour of tangled metal wire devices
... (TMW) devices can be used as damping elements in ex- treme environments where traditional materials such as viscoelastic polymers deteriorate or become ...TMW devices are highly nonlinear because the ...
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A new glaucoma hypothesis: a role of glymphatic system dysfunction
... Novel insights from molecular and cellular biology as well as neuroimaging research indicate that CSF physi- ology is much more complex than previously believed. The glymphatic system is a recently defined brain-wide ...
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Safety and Efficacy of Endovascular Sonolysis Using the EkoSonic Endovascular System in Patients with Acute Stroke
... Consecutive patients who fulfilled the following inclusion criteria between August 2009 and September 2011 were recruited into this prospective case control study: acute ischemic stroke due to oc- clusion of the MCA or ...
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Circulatory Mechanics in the Toad Bufo Marinus: I Structure and Mechanical Design of the Aorta
... A comparison of the elastic modulus at mean blood pressure solid lines, and the connective tissue content broken lines as a function of the relative position along the arterial tree, for[r] ...
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User Friendly: Anthropomorphic Devices and Mechanical Behaviour in Japan
... The hypothesis underlying Osawa’s research is that people interact better with devices if they anthropomorphize them. In his words: “Our proposed humanoid parts redefine the cur- rently ambiguous boundary between ...
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Histopathologic Evaluation of Arterial Wall Response to 5 Neurovascular Mechanical Thrombectomy Devices in a Swine Model
... We acknowledge several limitations of the current study and pro- posed animal model, as with any in vivo experimental model. First, the swine SFAs are less tortuous without atherosclerosis compared with in- tracranial ...
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