Second Heart Assist today announced data from a study highlighting the performance of its Whisper device against a ...

including 49 reports of death linked to the Impella pumps, according to the alert. There have been multiple recall notices regarding three Abiomed devices in the past year. “A commitment to ...

A protocol for transitioning patients with heart failure and a left ventricular assist device to a stepdown unit from the ICU ...

Use of two high-risk cardiovascular devices—the Watchman (Boston Scientific) left atrial appendage occluder and the Impella (Abiomed) left ventricular assist device—is highest in the United States ...

In a transformative recent study, the Second Heart Assist Inc. Whisper™ device, a next-generation percutaneous mechanical ...

In June 2023, Abiomed issued an urgent medical device correction for its Impella 2.5 intravascular micro axial blood pump, which supports the heart. In patients with a certain type of replacement ...

That device is called an Impella. Cardiovascular doctors at Tampa General Hospital explained that it's a temporary heart pump saving lives in the Tampa Bay area. Lives like Charles Black.

While this study utilized the Johnson & Johnson (Abiomed) Impella CP® device, it is relative to all "micro-axial" pump designs with small annulus pumps with larger shear attributes and housings ...