Education Library

Rick Clark, CPC, CPMA, discusses hospital reimbursement, provider reimbursement, and documentation best practices at an educational event for advanced practice providers (APPs).

Jason Richard provides a tip-to-toe review of the key features of the Impella RP Flex with SmartAssist®.

Michael Galvin, a clinical educator at Abiomed, discusses how to identify Impella components and measure Impella position using echocardiography.

Four physicians from the heart team at Tampa General Hospital discusses their approach to high-risk revascularization in patients with heart failure.

Michael Galvin discusses how to measure the position of the Impella 5.5® with SmartAssist® using echocardiography.

Fadi Al-Rashid, MD, discusses his publication on standard pre-procedural clinical workup for Protected PCI.

Seth Bilazarian, MD, and Chuck Simonton, MD, recap the kick-off Day of Innovation and highlights from Day 1 at TCT 2023 in San Francisco, CA.

Prof. Dr. Jan-Malte Sinning discusses optimal revascularization strategies during protected high-risk procedures with Impella® heart pumps.

William O’Neill, MD, and Alejandro Lemor, MD, compare insurance databases to the cVAD registry and discuss factors that characterize high-risk patients requiring MCS.

Alejandro F. Lemor, MD, disusses A-SMART-EF, a new risk score for predicting outcomes in patients supported with Impella® during PCI.

William O’Neill, MD, defines high-risk PCI and explains how to decide when to use mechanical circulatory support in this short interview.

Michael Galvin describes the 4 major views that make up a full echocardiogram as well as the role of color and spectral Doppler in assessing Impella® position.

Dr. Andreas Götzenich interviews Dr. Benedikt Schrage from Hamburg on the topic "Early left ventricular unloading improves survival in patients with cardiogenic shock undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)".

Prof. Christophe Vandenbriele, MD, urges caution and the need for context when drawing conclusions from retrospective analyses in critically ill patients with cardiogenic shock.

In this paper, Sascha Ott and colleagues describe a standard operating procedure (SOP) they developed for determining the temporary mechanical circulatory support (tMCS) strategy for patients in cardiogenic shock (CS).