Understanding the C-Pulse device and its potential to treat heart failure

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-34

  Sales, Virna L ^a   McCarthy, Patrick M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assist devices; Counterpulsation pump; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

AORTA BALLOON; BLEEDING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; C PULSE DEVICE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; COUNTERPULSATION; DEVICE INFECTION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART ABSCESS; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

ANIMALS; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 77949264842     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-010-0007-7     Document Type: Review

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