Alarms & Warnings
Catheter Facts and Figures
Console vs. AIC
Abiomed Trivia
It's All About the DATA
100
When this type of alarm is displayed on the AIC, it indicates that the alarm condition is immediately harmful or life-threatening.
What is a "red" (or critical) alarm or an alarm heading on a red background?
100
This Impella product is the only one that does NOT have an angled cannula.
What is the Impella LD?
100
This component is used with the Automated Impella Controller to deliver purge fluid to the Impella Catheter.
What is the purge cassette?
100
This city is the location of Abiomed's European division.
What is Aachen, Germany?
100
This landmark trial compares the Impella with the IABP.
What is PROTECT II?
200
When "mute alarm" is pressed, critical and serious AIC alarms are silenced for this length of time.
What is 2 minutes?
200
The primary purpose of this system is to prevent blood from entering the catheter motor.
What is the purge system?
200
The Impella Console and the Automated Impella Controller can operate for this length of time on the internal lithium-ion battery when the battery is fully charged.
What is at least 60 minutes?
200
This is Abiomed's tagline.
What is "Recovery hearts. Saving lives."
200
PROTECT II patients had complex coronary anatomy, as demonstrated by high values of this score.
What is the SYNTAX score?
300
This should be the first action taken in response to a "suction" alarm on the MPC.
What is reduce the performance level 1 to 2 steps?
300
The purpose of this component of the Impella 2.5 is to "assist with stabilizing the catheter in the correct position in the left ventricle".
What is the pigtail?
300
These two waveforms are displayed simultaneously on the dual signal screen of the Impella Console or the placement screen of the AIC.
What are the motor current and placement signal waveforms?
300
This person is the President, CEO and Chairman of Abiomed.
Who is Michael Minogue?
300
PROTECT II data revealed a 52% reduced in readmissions for this at 90 days with Impella compared to the IABP.
What is repeat revascularization?
400
Purge fluid flow stops when this type of alarm occurs on the infusion pump.
What is a "Downstream Occlusion" alarm?
400
21Fr is the size of the cannula on this catheter.
What is the Impella 5.0 (and/or the Impella LD)
400
This color cable is used to connect the Impella Catheter to the Automated Impella Controller
What is white?
400
This new higher flow Impella device is planned to be commercially available in the summer/fall of 2012.
What is the Impella cVAD?
400
Impella's ICER of $39k is well below the accepted US threshold of $100k and also below this procedure, which is considered the comparator procedure with an ICER of $50k.
What is dialysis?
500
A warning appears on the Impella Console as soon as purge pressure falls below this level.
What is 300 mmHg?
500
These three features were added to the "Third Generation" of the Impella 2.5.
What are the radiopaque marker, the blue suture pads and the EasyGuide lumen?
500
When using the Automated Impella Controller, thr purge pressure is maintained in this range after transferring to the standard configuration.
What is 300 to 1100 mmHg?
500
This person is the longest tenured employee at Abiomed, joining the company in 1982.
Who is Bill Bolt?
500
PROTECT II results revealed NYHA improvement post-PCI as evidenced by this percentage reduction in Class III and IV heart failure.
What is 58%