Education Library

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Alaide Chieffo, MD, discusses results from a subanalysis of women in the IMP-IT Registry in Italy.

Are there billable services after Impella® insertion in the cath lab, such as ICU monitoring?

Gregg Stone, MD, FACC, FSCAI interviews Prof. Divaka Perera, professor of cardiology at Kings College in London, UK at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.