The Impella heart pump is a small pump that a healthcare professional can insert without surgery. It can help maintain blood flow in people who have CAD, are recovering from cardiogenic shock, or ...

Cardiogenic shock means the heart is failing to pump, and the Impella device helps the heart pump. But Kader didn't know it would be a game changer for him, too. "I couldn't fully endorse a ...

Left-sided Impella heart pumps made by Johnson & Johnson MedTech's Abiomed have been linked to more than 100 serious injuries, including 49 deaths.

The alert still permits use of the device, with an update on the risks requested for the 243-page instruction manual that accompanies the pump. There are currently 66,000 Impella pumps in the ...

On Dec. 27, 2023, Abiomed sent affected customers an Urgent Medical Device Correction letter with updated warnings that stress careful positioning of the Impella pump catheter under image guidance.

The agency faulted the device maker for delayed notice of mounting complications, citing increasing reports of how use of the device perforated heart walls. Skip to content. Local News.

There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump’s ...

The FDA first cleared the pump for use in 2008, and the device is aimed at letting the heart rest by helping take over the pumping function of the heart.The agency is working with Abiomed to ...

After 129 serious injuries, including 49 deaths, have been reported, the device company issued a correction — not a product removal — on 66,390 Impella heart pumps.

Heart patients, doctors reunite to celebrate recoveries with ‘Impella’ device in Grosse Pointe Shores Impella is used in cases where patients are too weak for surgery Kimberly Gill , Anchor ...

The alert still permits use of the device, with an update on the risks requested for the 243-page instruction manual that accompanies the pump. There are currently 66,000 Impella pumps in the ...

There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump’s ...