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Friday, February 10, 2012

LIFEBRIDGE Medizintechnik : New ACCF/AHA/SCAI Guidelines with increased recommendations for the use of extracorporeal hemodynamic support in patients with cardiac or cardio-pulmonary failure.

LIFEBRIDGE Medizintechnik
January 17, 2012 - LIFEBRIDGE Medizintechnik AG announces increased recommendations for hemodynamic support by guidelines for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). Issued by the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Society for Coronary Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), guidelines provide expanded recommendations for hemodynamic support in patients with cardiogenic shock, during high-risk PCIs and to stabilize emergent patients in hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery. The portable LIFEBRIDGEâ system, with its clinically proven capability to completely substitute cardiac function and oxygenate emergency patients, is the ideal cardiopulmonary support system for PCI centers to fulfill the updated guideline recommendations... LIFEBRIDGE Medizintechnik's Press Release -