Sentence examples for a balloon pump from inspiring English sources

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

He introduced an improved heart-lung machine in 1958, a pacemaker small enough to implant in 1962, and a balloon pump for short-term use after surgery in 1967.

In 2006, The Scotsman ran a piece about her including a sentence that remains permanently etched in my mind: "Underneath the superficiality of a woman who is so spoilt that she sneers at the wrong car, who uses sex as a weapon, who inflates and deflates her breasts as if they were attached to a balloon pump, is a woman who has not had an easy life, however much money she has made".

The arterial pressure bags were connected to a balloon pump (Datascope® 90 T) providing pulsating pressure.

Using a balloon pump, inflate a balloon.

Blow up the balloon using a balloon pump.

In any discussion about tax-dodging, the same old images crop up: squeezing a balloon, pumping a punctured tyre, playing whack-a-mole.

A severe postoperative cardiac event was defined as one of the following: any postoperative sustained ventricular arrhythmia requiring treatment; a need for inotropic support for at least 24 hours; a need for an intraaortic balloon pump for at least 24 hours in the ICU; or postoperative myocardial infarction as defined above and previously [ 12, 13].

While Kantrowitz went on to invent a cardiac balloon pump which has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, Shumway and Lower are the true pioneers of transplantation.

Four hundred and six patients were propensity-score matched based on the likelihood of receiving a preoperative balloon pump.

Typically, this involves a panoply of technology — a mechanical ventilator and perhaps a tracheostomy tube if the lungs have failed, an aortic balloon pump if the heart has given out, a dialysis machine if the kidneys don't work.