Baptist Hospital East adopts CardiacAssist's TandemHeart System

CardiacAssist Inc. announced today that Baptist Hospital East has adopted the company's TandemHeart® System.

“If TandemHeart were not available, many patients would not have stayed alive long enough or would not have been healthy enough to get a heart transplant or cardiac procedure. Therefore we are extremely proud to offer this important new life-saving technology to our cardiac patients.”

Baptist Hospital East is in select company: TandemHeart is now being used in more than 90% of the "Best U.S. Heart & Heart Surgery Hospitals" as ranked by U.S. News & World Report—with more than 2,000 TandemHeart procedures performed to date at some 150 hospitals across the United States.

"TandemHeart is at the front lines of helping us treat very sick cardiac patients," said cardiologist Vincent S. DeGeare, M.D. "If TandemHeart were not available, many patients would not have stayed alive long enough or would not have been healthy enough to get a heart transplant or cardiac procedure. Therefore we are extremely proud to offer this important new life-saving technology to our cardiac patients."

FDA-cleared TandemHeart can be placed rapidly by both cardiac surgeons in an operating room and interventional cardiologists in a cath lab to provide short-term circulatory support for critically ill patients. Hemodynamic support includes a high net blood-flow rate of up to eight liters per minute in the OR or five liters per minute in the catheterization lab—more than twice the amount of other available technologies—and is fully reimbursed by Medicare.

SOURCE CardiacAssist