Education Library

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

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Viktoriya Kagan, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, and Eddy Gutierrez, MD, discuss how to care for patients with cardiogenic shock and manage Impella® in the ICU.