Hemodynamic Support Devices

This hemodynamic support systems channel includes content on intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP), percutaneous ventricular assist devices (pVAD) like the Impella or TandemHeart, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and ventricular assist devices (VAD). This channel also includes use of these devices in support of patients in cardiogenic shock and advanced heart failure

News | Heart Failure

March 5, 2020 — Abbott recently received Breakthrough Device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...

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News | Cardiovascular Surgery

February 27, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a safety communication this week to healthcare to ...

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Tufts Medical Center created a heart failure team approach to care for its patients. The program includes an interventional heart failure fellowship program, where interventional cardiologists learn more advanced care, as show here with an ECMO procedure being performed in a cath lab at Tufts. The interventional cardiologists learn how to better care for heart failure patients and interface with surgeons, intensivists and others on the HF care team. The operator is Nevin Kapur. Photo by Dave Fornell.
Feature | Heart Failure | Dave Fornell, Editor

There is no, single magic bullet in heart failure (HF) to easily reduce readmission rates or easily reverse this complex ...

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News | Heart Failure

February 12, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Carmat's investigational device exemption ...

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Videos | Hemodynamic Support Devices

Navin Kapur, M.D., FAHA, FACC, FSCAI, director, Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Program and executive director of ...

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Videos | Cath Lab

Haval Chweich, M.D., medical director of the cardiac critical care unit (CCU) at Tufts Medical Center, and assistant ...

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Videos | Hemodynamic Support Devices

Richard Botto, CVT, RCSA, chief cardiovascular technologist, division of cardiology, cardiac cath lab, and Melissa Smith ...

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News | Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)

January 7, 2020 — Abbott announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new alternative surgical ...

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The Philips Lumify hand-held ultrasound technology is an important component of the mobile ECMO unit. Members of the ECMO team use Lumify for real-time visual guidance when inserting tubes in veins and arteries in a process called ECMO cannulation. #RSNA2019 #RSNA19 #POCUS
Feature | Ultrasound Imaging

November 26, 2019 — Physicians from the University of New Mexico (UNM) and local emergency responders recently treated a ...

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November 19, 2019 — Since Maquet/Datascope first recalled all of its  intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP) due to reports ...

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News | Hemodynamic Support Devices

November 4, 2019 — Abbott is recalling its CentriMag Acute Circulatory Support System due to a calibration system error ...

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