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Hemorrhage control after removal of surgically implanted intraaortic balloon pump
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA 17822.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 1, 1990
Abstract:
Surgically implanted intraaortic balloon catheters have a substantial potential to cause hemorrhage on percutaneous removal. Because of the unacceptably high incidence of uncontrollable hemorrhage in patients in a life-threatening situation, a new percutaneous surgical modification allowing removal of these balloons with low blood loss has been devised and has proved highly successful in hemorrhage control.