Our first implantation of the smallest heart pump Impella CP

On Tuesday, 17th October 2017, our IRK division, after long preparations and training of physicians and healthcare professionals of the Department of Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and IKEM Coronary Unit experienced the first implantation of the smallest heart pump Impella CP from Abiomed. The operation was performed by the lead physician of the Department of Interventional Cardiology, MUDr. Michal Želízko, CSc.

Impella CP is intended to stabilize hemodynamic of the patient’s blood circulation by pumping blood from the left ventricle into the aorta by a flow rate of up to 3.7 l / min, thereby supporting blood circulation in reduced left ventricular function. Impella is used in high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) and for cardiogenic shock conditions (CS).

This miniature pump is stored in a 14F catheter and was inserted through the patient’s right thigh into the femoral artery. Implantation of Impella CP lasted 25 minutes, including the preparation of the entry into the groin and ended without any complications.

Benefits of this device were appreciated not only by doctors, in a complicated PCI intervention in which they performed transluminal angioplasty of the main stem of the left coronary artery with the introduction of stents, but also by the patient who had been hemodynamically stable during the operation. In Europe is the approved duration of implanted Impella CP in the patient’s body maximum of 5 days.

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