Does prophylactic intra-aortic balloon pumping really fail to improve perioperative outcomes in patients with poor left ventricular function?: To the editor

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2014, Pages e728-e729

  Pfeiffer, Steffen ^a   Santarpino, Giuseppe ^a   Sirch, Joachim ^a   Fischlein, Theodor ^a   Vogt, Ferdinand ^a  

^a KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; BYPASS SURGERY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LETTER; OPERATING ROOM; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MALE; PROCEDURES;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; MALE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84922065156     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000557     Document Type: Letter

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