Does the use of intra-aortic balloon pumps reduce in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing high risk percutaneous coronary intervention?
Higher hospital-level use of IABP during high-risk PCI is not associated with improved in-hospital mortality.
IABP use varied significantly across hospitals for high risk PCI. However, this variation in IABP use was not associated with differences in in-hospital mortality.
Curtis et al. (Wed,) studied this question.