Management of Single-Ventricle Patients With Berlin Heart EXCOR Ventricular Assist Device: Single-Center Experience

Artificial Organs

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 555-559

  Mackling, Tracey ^a   Shah, Tejas ^a   Dimas, Vivian ^a   Guleserian, Kristine ^a   Sharma, Mahesh ^a   Forbess, Joseph ^a   Ardura, Monica ^a   Gross Toalson, Jami ^a   Lee, Ying ^a   Journeycake, Janna ^a   Barnes, Aliessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Berlin Heart EXCOR; Single ventricle; Ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOLOGY; DISEASES; FLOORS; HEART; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES; PLATELETS; PROTEINS; PUMPS; RESPIRATORY THERAPY;

ANTI-COAGULATION; BERLIN HEART EXCOR; DIPYRIDAMOLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL MANAGEMENT; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS; SINGLE VENTRICLE; TEAM MANAGEMENT; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBIN; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOPIDOGREL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOPAMINE; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; MILRINONE; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; PANEL REACTIVE ANTIBODY; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S; SILDENAFIL; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANASARCA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTICOAGULATION; ANTITHROMBIN DEFICIENCY; AORTA ANOMALY; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ATRESIA; BACTEREMIA; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; CRYOABLATION; CYANOSIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DYSPNEA; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GLENN SHUNT; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART BLOCK; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMISPHERE; HEPARINIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MALABSORPTION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NAUSEA; NORWOOD PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACEMAKER; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYCYTHEMIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN S DEFICIENCY; PULMONARY ARTERY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RIGHT VENTRICLE TO PULMONARY ARTERY CONDUIT; SEPSIS; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY; VOMITING; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84862803732     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2011.01403.x     Document Type: Article

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