Interhospital air transport of a blind patient on extracorporeal life support with consecutive and successful left ventricular assist device implantation

Journal of Extra-Corporeal Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 166-169

  Bauer, Adrian ^a   Schaarschmidt, Jan ^a   Grosse, F Oliver ^a   Al Alam, Nidal ^a   Hausmann, Harald ^a   Krämer, Klaus ^b   Strüber, Martin ^b   Mohr, Friedrich W ^b  

^a MediClin Heart Center Coswig   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal life support; Interhospital air transport; Left ventricular assist device; Minimized extracorporeal circulation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; NORADRENALIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION DEVICE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; MICELLAR ELECTROKINETIC CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROCLIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AIR AMBULANCES; BLINDNESS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIATURIZATION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT TRANSFER; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84905912263     PISSN: 00221058     EISSN: 29698960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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