While many cardiac and vascular procedures have largely moved to minimally invasive techniques, the size of these ...
Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for ventricular assist devices (VAD). VADs are a type of mechanical hemodynamic support device that helps increase blood flow in people who have ventricles that are not work properly due to heart failure, cardiogenic shock, cardiomyopathy or myocardial infarction. Most often these devices support the left ventricle, so they are often referred to as left ventricular assist devices (LVAD). VADS come in two types, surgically implanted, usually as a bridge to heart transplant, and percutanenous catheter-based pumps used for temporary hemodynamic support. Examples of temporary percutaneous pumps include the Impella and TandemHeart devices.
March 2, 2021 — Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center became the second hospital in the nation to implant a ...
March 02, 2021
March 1, 2021 — Medtronic is recalling the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) Pump Implant Kit because the left ...
March 01, 2021
January 13, 2021 — FineHeart, a preclinical-stage medical device company developing a novel left ventricular assist ...
January 13, 2021
December 21, 2020 — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved updated labeling December 17 for Abbott's HeartMate ...
December 21, 2020
December 2, 2020 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized updates to Medicare coverage policies ...
December 02, 2020
Chuck Simonton, M.D., chief medical officer at Abiomed, discusses some of the new technologies and clinical trials the ...
October 20, 2020
October 16, 2020 — The Restore EF Study demonstrates the use of contemporary best practices, including attempting a more ...
October 16, 2020
Feature | Heart Failure | Dave Fornell, Editor
August 21, 2020 — The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed updates to coverage policies for to ...
August 21, 2020
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Dave Fornell, Editor
August 5, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) this week for ...
August 05, 2020
June 5, 2020 — Abiomed announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's investigational ...
June 05, 2020
This is a quick animation demonstrating how the new 9 French Abiomed Impella ECP expands to approximately 18 French and ...
June 05, 2020
June 1, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Abiom ...
June 01, 2020
May 29, 2020 — Medtronic is recalling its HeartWare HVAD left ventricular assist device (LVAD) pump outflow graft and ...
May 29, 2020
May 27, 2020 — Carmat, a developer of the of a next generation advanced total artificial heart, announces the first ...
May 27, 2020