•Cardiogenic shock after CABG, myocardial infarction or impending infarction
•unstable angina
•Acute mitral incompetence
•Planned cardiac transplant
•ventricular arrhythmias refractory to conventional treatment
•cardiotoxicity from poisoning, e.g. verapamil overdose
•Complications of heart failure"
a. Indications for the use of IABP
b. Contraindications for the use of IABP
c. Complications of IABP
d. Weaning process of IABP