Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock
Introduction The term shock first appeared in the English medical literature in a translation by John Clarke of a French treatise on gunshot wounds by Henry LeDran in 1740, Traité…
Historical Aspects of Mechanical Circulatory Support
Early mechanical circulatory support devices and technology development Establishing the Concept In the 1930s, Carrel and Lindbergh developed an in vitro artificial heart-like apparatus for keeping organs alive outside the…
