Technology Insight: Use of ventricular assist devices in children

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 377-386

  Hetzer, Roland ^a   Stiller, Brigitte ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Berlin Heart; Children; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Recovery; Ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; MILRINONE;

ANTICOAGULATION; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOBILIZATION; MYOCARDITIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMP; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS;

EID: 33745575679     PISSN: 17434297     EISSN: 17434300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpcardio0575     Document Type: Review

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