Education Library

Bessie Sycip presents OR and ICU best practice checklists for Impella 5.5® with SmartAssist®.

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

Roberto Lorusso, MD, Alan Gass, MD, and Evgenij Potapov, MD, discuss topics related to ECpella and LV unloading in this Q&A session from ELSO 2022.

Rohan Goswami, MD, discusses renal recovery in patients with heart failure cardiogenic shock (HFCS) supported with Impella 5.5® with SmartAssist®.

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

View an animation depicting the primary steps for anterior direct insertion of Impella 5.5 with SmartAssist.

This Impella skills video demonstrates direct aortic insertion of the Impella 5.5 with SmartAssist.

Rohan Goswami, MD, and panelists discuss advances in bridge to decision therapy and optimizing outcomes with Impella 5.5 with SmartAssist.

This Impella skills video demonstrates insertion of the Impella 5.5 with SmartAssist using the axillary insertion kit.

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

These checklists include steps to perform pre-insertion, during insertion, post-insertion, prior to leaving the OR, and daily in the ICU

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.

Three physicians from the Cleveland Clinic discuss strategies for selecting the Impella® heart pump and/or ECMO as well as patient management and venting strategies.