CardiacAssist reports 2,000th case for TandemHeart

The TandemHeart® extracorporeal circulatory support system has now been used in 2,000 cases. CardiacAssist who make the TandemHeart have said that it is being used in 90% of the “Best U.S. Heart Surgery Hospitals” as ranked by U.S. News World Report. More than 100 additional U.S. hospitals are considering TandemHeart purchases in this calendar year.

Michael Garippa, CEO said "Since becoming commercially available in 2004, two thousand of the most dire cardiac patients at a vast majority of the finest hospitals across the United States have benefited from TandemHeart availability. About 35% of these patients have been treated for ventricular dysfunction in a highly emergent setting, while approximately 65% have benefited from TandemHeart support during high-risk surgery or the riskiest of cardiac interventions.

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Posted: 1 year, 10 months ago by Kim #261

It's nice to know these technologies are there to back us up. I hope though I never it

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