The Food and Drug Administration has approved the emergency use of Abiomed's Impella heart pump for Covid-19 patients with heart failure.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the emergency use of Abiomed's Impella heart pump in combination with an oxygen machine to treat Covid-19 patients who suffer heart and lung failure.
Medical staff attend to a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease in the Intensive Care Unit , at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, California, U.S., May 12, 2020.Impella heart pump to help treat Covid-19 patients suffering from heart and lung failure. Doctors at Mercy had first put Smith on a ventilator, but when his heart began to fail they decided to try using Abiomed's Impella heart pump to try to give his heart muscle a rest, in combination with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine to pump more oxygen into his bloodstream. It's a dual treatment normally used for high-risk cardiac patients.
The Impella is not a new device, but it's the first time it has received FDA approval of the emergency use for treating the heart in combination with an ECMO for coronavirus patients.
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