title: Reducing the mortality in critically ill cardiac surgical patients: the ventricular assist device.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001243:Assisted Circulation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001794:Blood Pressure; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013318:Stroke Volume