Cardio-protection with intra-aortic counter-pulsation for thoracic surgery

Images in cardiovascular medicine. Augmentation of coronary blood flow with intra-aortic balloon pump counter-pulsation.

Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Counter-Pulsation To the Editor: The imaging of coronary flow1 during intra-aortic balloon pumping is important and might be used to adjust the timing of balloon deflation better. In the series of figures shown by Ryan and Foster,1 with intra-aortic balloon pumping assisting every second beat, there was no consistent reduction of systolic pressure in the intervening un...

The Use of Skin Plethysmography to Monitor Counter- Pulsation by the Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump

_____________ _ Skin plethysmography was used to monitor counter-pulsation by the intra-aortic balloon pump in 30 patients, 19 of whom came to coronary artery bypass grafting for pre-infarction angina. Skin plethysmography provided a reliable display of the arterial waveform and permitted correct adjustment of the timing and rate of balloon inflation and exhaust to produce maximum augmentation ...

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery: DeBekay repair for type III thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm.

European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery: carrying the torch.

I would like to thank you for the honour of electing me as your President. As many of you might suspect and some of you know, in a well organised society like ours, with the Secretariat ably run by Torkel Aberg and Maud Zingmark, and the Organisational Secretariat efficiently managed by Kathy McGree, the duties of the President are not onerous. But still, a major task rests heavily on the shoul...

Video-on-command for thoracic and cardio-vascular surgery.

Nowadays, new technology for imaging, information storage, and its transmission is almost everywhere. In the medical field, multi-slice computed tomography (CT), allowing for simultaneous acquisition of many images in parallel, and quick three-dimensional reconstruction is just one example that has the potential to make significant changes in the daily practice, not only for thoracic and cardio...