SHock 2001

TCT 2001 Featured Presentations

• Cardiogenic Shock and Hemodynamic Support, by C.L. Grines

Cardiology Clinical Updates
Intra-aortic Balloon Counterpulsation in the Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock: Hemodynamic Effects and Clinical Challenges
The first worldwide effort to revisit the clinical potential of IABC. This activity is not sanctioned by, nor a part of, the First World Conference on Intra-aortic Balloon Counterpulsation
Chairman, Spyridon D. Moulopoulos, MD
Release Date: May 24, 2001
Credit Hours Available: 1 hour of AMA category 1 credit
Cardiology Clinical Updates - (C) 2001 Medscape, Inc.
http://cardiology.medscape.com/38256.rhtml?srcmp=card-052501 

Reversal of Cardiogenic Shock by Percutaneous Left Atrial-to-Femoral Arterial Bypass Assistance
Holger Thiele, Bernward Lauer, Rainer Hambrecht, Enno Boudriot, Howard A. Cohen, and Gerhard Schuler
Circulation 2001;104 2917-2922
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/24/2917 

Percutaneous coronary intervention for cardiogenic shock in the SHOCK Trial Registry
Webb JG, et al.
Am Heart J 2001;141:964-70
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11376311 
Cardiogenic shock is the major cause of death among patients admitted to the hospital with acute myocardial infarction (MI). http://cardiology.medscape.com/40255.rhtml?srcmp=card-071301