Greater familiarity with the device and better patient selection appear to be ... STEMI within 24 hours of Impella placement, cardiogenic shock, renal failure (creatinine < 4 mg/dL), or low platelet ...

To insert the Impella, a doctor makes a small cut in the upper thigh, near the groin. They then thread the device up to the heart through a long thin catheter. Once the device is in the heart ...

"Normally, of course, you would have to split the sternum." Today, Siess's idea is a reality — a medical device called the Impella — and he serves as the chief technology officer of Abiomed ...

The new Impella CP heart pump features a fiber optic sensor, optimally positioned to measure the placement signal in ... mechanical circulatory support device that calculates and displays pressure ...

He's passionate about educating medical staff how to use the Impella device, because as a cardiac care nurse for 15 years at University Hospitals, he witnessed how many lives the device saved.

TCT 69: Impella use for fulminant myocarditis in cardiogenic shock: Analysis of the Japan Registry for Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device (J-PVAD) Receive the the latest news, research, and ...

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough device designation to Abiomed’s (NASDAQ: ABMD) Impella ECP expandable percutaneous ...

An Impella setup and insertion kit contains all the single-use, sterile accessories needed: an introducer kit to gain arterial access, a 260 cm catheter placement guide-wire ... and functioning of the ...

Impella RP is the most studied right-sided device and the only percutaneous technology with FDA approval designating it as safe and effective for right heart support.

Kolkata: Doctors at a city hospital conducted angioplasty on a 66-year-old by putting the patient on Impella device support — the world’s smallest heart-pumping machine. The Dhakuria resident ...