Use of a pulsatile ventricular assist device (Berlin Heart EXCOR) and an interventional lung assist device (Novalung) in an animal model

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 498-503

  Wermelt, Julius Z ^a   Honjo, Osami ^b   Kilic, Ali ^c   Van Arsdell, Glen ^b   Gruenwald, Colleen ^b   Humpl, Tilman ^a,b  

^a Division of Cardiology   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c Berlin Heart GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ASSIST DEVICE; BEFORE AND AFTER; BENCH TESTS; BLOOD PUMP; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FLOWTHROUGH; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; INTERVENTIONAL; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; MERCURY (METAL); OXYGENATION; OXYGENATORS; RESPIRATORY THERAPY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; BLOOD PUMP; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; INTERVENTIONAL LUNG ASSIST DEVICE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PULSATILE VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; SWINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; INSTRUMENTATION; PROSTHESIS; PULSATILE FLOW; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMOGLOBINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PLATELET COUNT; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULSATILE FLOW; SWINE;

EID: 55949095303     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAT.0b013e318185da6f     Document Type: Conference Paper

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