Sustained skeletal muscle power for cardiac assist devices: Implications of metabolic constraints

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 541-547

  Reichenbach, Steven H ^a,b   Egrie, G D ^a   Marinache, S M ^a   Gustafson, K J ^a   Farrar, D J ^b   Hill, J D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b THORATEC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; FATIGUE TESTING; HYDRAULICS; METABOLISM; OPTIMIZATION;

SKELETAL MUSCLE POWER;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DEVICE; GOAT; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC RATE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0034819342     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002480-200109000-00029     Document Type: Article

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