What does an IABP do?
An IABP allows blood to flow more easily into your coronary arteries. It also helps your heart pump more blood with each contraction. The balloon is inserted into your aorta.
Procedure Details
- Inserts a hollow tube called a catheter into an artery in your leg.
- Threads the balloon through the catheter.
- Uses X-ray imaging to guide the balloon and catheter up to your aorta.
- Attaches the intra-aortic balloon pump to a machine that tells the balloon when to inflate and deflate.
What is the normal pressure for the IABP?
The aortic volume doubles between a shock mean of 30 to 40 mm of Hg and a normal mean pressure of 80 to 90 mm of Hg). Further increases in pumping volume result only in distention of the aorta (due to aortic elasticity) and not in the effective pumping of the balloon
What is the role of IABP in CABG?
The intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) is used to prevent complications after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery; although some results are controversial nowadays even contradictory
