[How to Insert an Intraaortic Balloon Pumping(IABP)].

ABSTRACT

The Intra Aortic Balloon Pumping( IABP) is a circulatory assist device widely used in cardiovascular surgery area. The IABP increases coronary perfusion and (may increase?)intracranial blood flow through diastolic augmentation mechanism and it reduces afterload and myocardial oxygen consumption through systolic unloading mechanism. Safer insertion of the IABP is able to be accomplished with the assistance of radioscopy or a transesophageal echocardiography(TEE). Based on the experience in our institution, we describe the IABP insertion technique with a TEE guide.