Education Library

This article describes pre-procedural preparation, with a particular focus on imaging techniques for screening and guiding vascular access in patients undergoing Protected PCI.

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.

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

Jürgen Leick, MD, discusses his paper on optimizing patient selection in high-risk protected percutaneous coronary intervention.

Members of the heart team at Tampa General Hospital discuss their early experience with the Impella RP Flex™ with SmartAssist®.

Vasileios Panoulas, MD, discusses a pooled analysis of factors predicting outcomes at 90 days in high-risk PCI patients.

Learn more about the data and differences between part I and part II from the York data analysis.

In the presentation titled “Predictive value of residual SYNTAX score for clinical outcomes after high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention: Evidence from pooled analysis of prospective studies.”

In a third-party analysis conducted by the York Health Economics Consortium, IPD from contemporary studies were evaluated to test the hypothesis that PCI with Impella® support may be associated with a greater extent of revascularization.

Vasileios Panoulas, MD, discusses an individual patient data pooling from the PROTECT II RCT, PROTECT III and RESTORE EF trials released at EuroPCR 2023.

Navin Kapur, MD, discusses the latest science underlying reperfusion and unloading and how it led to the STEMI-DTU pilot and pivotal trials.

A bicarbonate-based purge solution for Impella® may be a viable alternative to heparin-based purge solution in patients who are heparin-intolerant and when heparin is contraindicated.

A heart team approach and hemodynamic assessment led to timely and effective use of Impella 5.5 with SmartAssist for this patient with PCCS.

Hady Lichaa, MD, discusses an innovative single-access dry-closure technique with iliac artery angioplasty through the ipsilateral sheath.