Postoperative care and complications after ventricular assist device implantation

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 231-246

  Allen, Sara Jane ^a   Sidebotham, David ^a  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

critical care; heart failure; heart assist; heart assist devices; intensive Care; postoperative care; postoperative complications; pumps; risk factors; therapy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CEFAZOLIN; CHLORHEXIDINE; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPYRIDAMOLE; FELODIPINE; FLUCONAZOLE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; DECISION MAKING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER INJURY; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MENTAL DISEASE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE; TERMINAL CARE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; WEANING;

EID: 84865258712     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: 1532169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2012.03.005     Document Type: Review

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