Implantation technique of the CentriMag biventricular assist device allowing ambulatory rehabilitation.
Non-implantable ventricular assist device plays a major role in emergent or urgent situation where a patient has acutely decompensating hemodynamics. One of its major disadvantages is that the patient needs to be bed-bound after insertion. We have developed a surgical technique that allows ambulatory management of the patients who received non-implantable device with CentriMag.
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, Milstein Hospital Building 7-435, 177 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Hiroo
H
Takayama
Jonathan M
JM
Chen
Ulrich P
UP
Jorde
Yoshifumi
Y
Naka
D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004867:Equipment Design; D004869:Equipment Safety; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome