Usability and safety of ventricular assist devices: Human factors and design aspects

Artificial Organs

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 691-695

  Geidl, Lorenz ^a   Zrunek, Philipp ^b   Deckert, Zeno ^b   Zimpfer, Daniel ^b   Sandner, Sigrid ^b   Wieselthaler, Georg ^a,b   Schima, Heinrich ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Ludwig Boltzmann Cluster for Rheumatology   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blood pump; Cardiac assist device; Heart failure; Safety; Usability

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

ASSIST DEVICE; BLOOD PUMP; CARDIAC ASSIST; CARDIAC ASSIST DEVICE; DATA COLLECTION; HEART FAILURE; IN-PHASE; OUTPATIENT CLINIC; TWO PHASE; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

CABLES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SELF EVALUATION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ALARMS; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349331504     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2009.00844.x     Document Type: Article

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