Education Library

This Impella skills video demonstrates the insertion steps for the Impella CP with SmartAssist.

This live case highlights high-risk PCI involving a calcified graft lesion treated with orbital atherectomy and stenting with Impella heart pump hemodynamic support.

This Impella skills video describes the single-access technique for the Impella CP and Impella CP with SmartAssist.

This Impella skills video demonstrates how to enter cardiac output into the Automated Impella Controller™ for Impella CP® with SmartAssist® and Impella 5.5® with SmartAssist®.

Scott Silvestry, MD, and a panel of surgeons take a comprehensive look at post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock and its management today.

Kiyotake Ishikawa, MD, discusses his paper on the impact of Impella on dissected coronary artery hemodynamics in a porcine model.

Dave Weber, PhD, reviews how SmartAssist technology determines and tracks trends in cardiac output (CO) and cardiac power output (CPO) and how these metrics can be used to guide a successful Impella® heart pump weaning procedure.

TTE videos of proper and improper Impella CP® position

Matthew G. Whitbeck, MD, describes how the RAILWAY Sheathless Access System can be used with the single access technique.

Complete hemodynamic profiling is associated with lower in-hospital mortality.

Jason Richard, an advanced Impella® trainer, provides a tip-to-toe review of the Impella 5.5 with SmartAssist.

Learn when and how to use echocardiography to visualize in real-time the relationship of the Impella 5.5 with SmartAssist to structures within the left ventricle.

This quick skills video demonstrates the procedure for transferring Impella® support from one Automated Impella Controller™ (AIC) to another AIC.

Ivan Hanson, MD, explains the SCAI shock staging system and how it can predict survival in AMI cardiogenic shock.