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Heart-Assist Devices

Known as: Heart Assist Devices, Devices, Heart-Assist, Devices, Vascular-Assist 
Small pumps, often implantable, designed for temporarily assisting the heart, usually the LEFT VENTRICLE, to pump blood. They consist of a pumping… 
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Review
2017
Review
2017
Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections: A Systematic Review
Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are becoming a more frequent life-support intervention. Gaining an understanding of risk… 
Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
MEMS Based Broadband Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Energy Harvester (PUEH) for Enabling Self-Powered Implantable Biomedical Devices
Acoustic energy transfer is a promising energy harvesting technology candidate for implantable biomedical devices. However, it… 
Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Simulating Ideal Assistive Devices to Reduce the Metabolic Cost of Running
Tools have been used for millions of years to augment the capabilities of the human body, allowing us to accomplish tasks that… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Patient-ventilator interaction during pressure support ventilation and neurally adjusted ventilatory assist*
Objective: To compare the effect of pressure support ventilation and neurally adjusted ventilatory assist on breathing pattern… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Proportional assist ventilation with load-adjustable gain factors in critically ill patients: comparison with pressure support
ObjectivesIt is not known if proportional assist ventilation with load-adjustable gain factors (PAV+) may be used as a mode of… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Effect of inspiratory muscle work on peripheral fatigue of locomotor muscles in healthy humans
The work of breathing required during maximal exercise compromises blood flow to limb locomotor muscles and reduces exercise… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Towards numerical prototyping of labs-on-chip: modeling for integrated microfluidic devices
This review article presents an overview of some of the tools, techniques and applications of numerical simulation for integrated… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Long-term follow-up of Thoratec ventricular assist device bridge-to-recovery patients successfully removed from support after recovery of ventricular function.
Review
1994
Review
1994
Malignant ventricular arrhythmias are well tolerated in patients receiving long-term left ventricular assist devices.
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Proportional assist ventilation, a new approach to ventilatory support. Theory.
The relation between inspiratory effort and ventilatory return (flow and volume) is usually abnormal in patients who require… 
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