Full Description
Assisted Circulation 4 is an authoritative review of the progress which has been achieved in the last 5 years since the publication of Assisted Circulation 3 in 1989. The present book highlights the work of well-known experts on indications for assisted circulation, cardiac support devices such as bridges, devices for transplantation, devices for chronic mechanical support, biological energy sources, cardiomyoplasty, extracorporeal membraneoxygenation and an overview of cardiac devices support with a specific emphasis on xenotransplantation. Assisted Circulation 4 is the latest product of an ongoing effort by the editors to keep readers regularly informed of recent developments in the field. Assisted Circulation is a standard technology in cardiac surgery and especially in cardiac transplantation.
Contents
Questions and Predictions.- I. Counterpulsation.- Introduction: Intra-aortic Balloon Pumping as an Established Clinical Method.- Intra-aortic Balloon Pumping for Assisted Circulation: New Techniques and New Prospects.- Large-volume Counterpulsation.- Optimal Conditions of Biventricular Balloon Pumping During Ventricular Fibrillation in the Experimental Animal.- II. Ventricular Assist Devices.- Introduction: Clinical Reality.- Mechanical Circulatory Support at Henri Mondor Hospital: Indications for the Use of Different Devices.- Use of the Novacor Left Ventricular Assist System as a Bridge to Cardiac Transplantation: First Experience with Long-Term Patients on the Wearable System.- Clinical Results of the HeartMate Implantable Blood Pump.- The Abiomed BVS 5000 for Treatment of Postcardiotomy Cardiogenic Shock.- The Development of Low-Cost Temporary and Permanent Circulatory Assist Devices.- Progress Toward a Completely Implantable left Ventricular Assist Device at the Pennsylvania State University.- III. Nonpulsatile Blood Pumps.- Centrifugal Pumps - Now and the Future.- The Hemopump: Clinical Results and Future Applications.- Considerations in the Development of Mini-Spindle Pump.- New Progress with Impeller Pumps in Taiwan.- IV. Biologic Assistance and Energy Sources.- Skeletal Muscle Ventricles for Biologic Cardiac Assistance.- Chronic Heart Assist System.- V. Total Artifical Heart.- In Vivo Testing of a Clinical-Size Totally Implantable Artifical Heart.- Total Artifical Heart with High-efficiency Motor-Gear Unit.- VI. Cardiac Transplantation.- Heart Transplantation: Current Experience at La Pitié, Paris.- The Efficacy of Calcium Channel Blockers in Pulmonary Reperfusion.- Cardiac Xenotransplantation.- VII. Extracorporeal Respiratory Support.- ExtracorporealRespiratory Support in Acute Respiratory Failure.- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Children.- Intravascular Membrance Oxygenation and Carbon Dioxide Removal with Permissive Hypercapnia - New Concepts in the Management of Respiratory Failure.- VIII. Horizons and Future Trends.- Horizons.- Horizons.- Horizons for Cardiac Prostheses.- Horizons.- Horizons.- Horizons.- Horizons.- Future Directions in Assisted Circulation.- Further Development of Extracorporeal Life Support.- Recent Progress Using the Anstadt Cup for Direct Mechanical Ventricular Actuation.
