If this option is entertained, the patient should be stabilized prior to surgery, with supportive interventions such as the use of an intra-aortic balloon pump.

If that is what the test shows this time, Charlie might need to have a balloon pump inserted in his heart to bolster its functioning.

Iatrogenic causes include trauma during cardiac catheterization or due to an intra-aortic balloon pump.

The balloon pump has been used in hundreds of thousands of patients since it was first tested in 1967.

The same laboratory was co-developer of Intra-aortic balloon pump in 1970.

Before the implant, the man needed three heart medications and the placement of a device known as a balloon pump in his aorta.

The balloon pump is a temporary cardiac assist device which has been used worldwide on three million people.

Nor did they use as often in these patients an intra-aortic balloon pump to increase blood flow through the coronary arteries before surgery.

Shortly after, I became critically ill and an intra-aortic balloon pump was implanted in February 1990 to stabilize my condition.

The newest medical equipment is on board, including an intra-aortic balloon pump, which supplies blood to the heart when the heart muscle is damaged.