Audio Broadcast: Heart Surgeon Leads National Heart Pump Study
Time: 16 minutes and 14 seconds
People who go into shock after having a heart attack are more likely to survive when they receive a temporary, mechanical heart pump to assist the weakened organ, according to a national study led my Mark Anderson, M.D., chief of cardiac surgery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
Dr. Anderson, who is also an associate professor of surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, studied patients at 26 hospitals, including RWJUH, who received a particular heart pump called the AB5000 Circulatory Support System, made by ABIOMED.
He found that patients who had a heart attack followed by cardiogenic shock made a faster, fuller recovery when aided by the implantable pump.
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