Cardiopulmonary bypass standby avoids fatality due to vascular laceration in laser-assisted lead extraction

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 274-278

  Wang, Wei ^a   Wang, Xiaowei ^a,b   Modry, Dennis ^a   Wang, Shaohua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EXCIMER LASER; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR LEAD; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LEAD EXTRACTION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATING ROOM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACEMAKER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STERNOTOMY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; VASCULAR LACERATION; VEIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACERATIONS; LASERS, EXCIMER; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 84895519101     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jocs.12294     Document Type: Article

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