C ompared with standard medical care, early use of a temporary intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) to support heart function in patients who were critically ill with cardiogenic shock caused by heart ...

such as the intra-aortic balloon pump. Now some 40 years since its first-in-man description, the situations and strategies in which to utilize its attractive physiological properties are still ...

(European Heart Journal) In heart failure complicated by cardiogenic shock, early intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) placement did not help clinical outcomes in the small randomized trial Altshock-2.

Cardiogenic shock occurs when the heart is not able to pump enough blood to generate adequate cardiac output to maintain normal blood pressure. This frequently occurs in the setting of a large ...

IABP systems are typically inserted within the multidisciplinary environment that is the cardiac catheterization laboratory. The specific role of the physiologist during IABP insertion is to ...