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October 23, 2023

Alejandro Lemor, MD: A-SMART-EF Score

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

October 23, 2023

Bill O’Neill: High-Risk PCI and Use of MCS

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

October 19, 2023

Echocardiography Views and Color Doppler for Impella®

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.

October 13, 2023

Early Left Ventricular Unloading Improves Survival in Patients With Cardiogenic Shock Undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)

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)".

October 12, 2023

Vandenbriele Letter: “We Need More Pieces of the Puzzle”

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

October 9, 2023

Improving Survival in Cardiogenic Shock—A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of the Impact of an Institutional Allocation Protocol to Short-Term Mechanical Circulatory Support

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).

October 6, 2023

Renal Protection and Hemodynamic Improvement by Impella® Heart Pumps

Birgit Markus, MD, discusses data on the impact of Impella® heart pump support on hemodynamics and renal function in patients with cardiogenic shock.

October 5, 2023

Optimized Patient Selection for High-Risk Protected PCI

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

October 5, 2023

Vandenbriele: Anticoagulation and Protected PCI

Prof. Dr. Christophe Vandenbriele discusses his recently published paper on anticoagulation in patients underoing Protected PCI procedures.

October 4, 2023

Tampa General Heart Team: Early Experience with Impella RP Flex™ with SmartAssist®

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

October 4, 2023

Karim Ibrahim: Handling High-Risk Patients in the Cath Lab

Prof. Karim Ibrahim discusses his article describing best practices for handling high-risk patients in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.

September 22, 2023

Jerome Crowley, MD: Early Experience With Impella RP Flex™ with SmartAssist®

Jerome Crowley, MD, discusses his early experience with the Impella RP Flex™.

September 20, 2023

Robert Salazar, MD: Early Experience With Impella RP Flex™ with SmartAssist®

Robert Salazar, MD, discusses his early experience with Impella RP Flex™.

September 12, 2023

ESC 2023: Predictors of 90-Day Outcomes From York Analysis

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

September 5, 2023

York Data Analysis About Complete Revascularization With pVAD vs IABP: Part I vs Part II - A Comparison

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

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