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algorithm for appropriate device selection prior to proceeding with percutaneous coronary intervention. Operators must be proficient in device placement as well as understand indications and contraindications to device therapy. Cardiogenic shock (CS) represents a spectrum of disease, which can be associated with hypoxemic right ventricular failure, left ventricular failure or biventricular failure. In this algorithm, CS was classified into three categories, pre/early sho