Pharmacological criteria for ventricular assist device insertion following postcardiotomy shock: Experience with the abiomed BVS system

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 288-293

  Samuels, Louis E ^a   Kaufman, Marla S ^a   Thomas, Matthew P ^a   Holmes, Elena C ^a   Brockman, Stanley K ^a   Wechsler, Andrew S ^a  

^a HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

EID: 0033364220     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1999.tb00996.x     Document Type: Article

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