Education Library

Jacob Møller, M.D., the principal investigator of the DanGer Shock trial, discusses the study results he presented at ACC 2024.

Babar Basir, DO, discusses the evolving understanding of the importance of unloading with Impella® in patients with cardiogenic shock. 

Babar Basir, DO, highlights trends and opportunities to improve outcomes using data from the National Cardiogenic Shock Initiative (NCSI) study.

Experts throughout Europe have contributed to this European Heart Journal supplement with articles discussing best practices for successfully managing mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in patients with cardiogenic shock.

Babar Basir, D.O., discusses the impact of the DanGer Shock RCT in clinical practice and looks into the future of AMI cardiogenic shock treatment and management.

This paper discusses the latest guidance for identifying patients with cardiogenic shock (CS) who are candidates for mechanical circulatory support (MCS).

In this article the authors describe techniques for Impella heart pump removal with or without pre-closure and discuss how to prevent and manage complications associated with large-bore femoral access.

This article describes how the interventional cardiology team handles high-risk patients in the cath lab, from procedural preparation and planning through procedural monitoring, as well as weaning strategies and access site management.

Alan Gass, M.D., FACC from Westchester Medical Center presents a case of a 48-year-old male without prior medical history who presented to a local hospital with several hours of chest pain.

Javier Escaned, MD, Nikos Werner, MD, Dirk Westermann, MD, and Vasileios Panoulas, MD, answer questions following the EuroPCR session “How to optimize high-risk patient outcome?”

“The precarious balance between bleeding and thrombosis in patients with p-LVAD support is often the primary reason that patients’ outcomes are jeopardized,” write the authors of this article, which discusses anticoagulation strategies and anticoagulant management in the setting of Protected PCI.

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.

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