The balloon pump can help improve the heart’s ability to pump blood as it needs to. Through a surgical procedure, the device is inserted through your leg into the heart. This is a short-term solution ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA announced that Maquet Datascope Corp. has recalled a hybrid intra-aortic balloon pump due to a design ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Teleflex announced FDA clearance for an intra-aortic balloon pump for the treatment of patients with severe ...

IABP systems are typically inserted within the multidisciplinary environment that is the cardiac catheterization laboratory. The specific role of the physiologist during IABP insertion is to ensure ...

Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) therapy fails to reduce infarct size or improve clinical outcomes when added prior to primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with high-risk ...

Apollo Endosurgery's Orbera365 weight-loss balloon works the same way as the original Orbera device, except it is designed to stay in the patient's stomach for 12 months, twice as long as the previous ...

The ingenious device cost just $2 to make, yet works almost as well as its expensive and cumbersome lab counterparts. A simple pressure pump, made from balloons and nylon stockings, means more people ...

A simple pressure pump, made from balloons and nylon stockings, means more people in more places will be able to test water contaminants and blood samples. The ingenious device unveiled in the ...

A simple pressure pump, made from balloons and nylon stockings, means more people in more places will be able to test water contaminants and blood samples. The ingenious device unveiled in the ...