MicroMed Cardiovascular's HeartAssist 5™ Goes Wireless

June 21, 2012 - Breakthrough Technology Advances Remote Monitoring Capabilities of the HeartAssist 5® System to Wirelessly Report Data when Patients are on the Move – MicroMed Cardiovascular Inc., manufacturer of the HeartAssist 5™ Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD), recently integrated the capacity for continuous wireless monitoring into its Conquest Controller. The Conquest Controller release is pending approval by regulatory agencies.

This unprecedented innovation will allow continual remote monitoring of data from the Heart Assist 5 LVAD. As a result, clinicians, doctors and technicians will be informed automatically and in the background without requiring the patient to do anything or having to come in to the clinic or hospital facilities.

Prior to MicroMed’s implementation of the M2M technology, clinicians could only access device data when the patient physically plugged the HeartAssist 5 into MicroMed’s HeartAttendant™ so that data could be transmitted via a local internet connection. The internet solution provided useful data, but limited patient mobility, and meant data reporting could not be continuous... MicroMed Cardiovascular's Press Release -