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Patient had an iabp placed prior to a cabg surgery.Following, the iabp became loud and blood was baking up into the tubing.The balloon had ruptured inside of patient.Surgeon removed catheter and placed a new one.The next day, iabp began alarming to "check catheter" when in 1:1.It ran without issue on 1:2.Iabp helium tubing was noted to have blood flecks in it.The balloon had ruptured again inside of patient.The provider attempted to remove the iabp through the sheath and the catheter fractured.Sheath and remaining portion of catheter were then removed.Pts.Blood pressure decreased during manual compression requiring albumin, levophed and dobutamine.Hemoglobin dropped from 9.4 to 7.1 by the following morning.Pt.Required 1 unit of prbcs.
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