PULVAD's Benefits

PULVAD – Pressure Unloading Left Ventricular Assist Device

A device aimed at myocardial recovery

 

COUNTERPULSATION – BASIC PRINCIPLE OF PULVAD

It reduces the heart’s workload, improving the normal function of the left ventricle and its blood supply, allowing recovery.

 

ADVANTAGES OF THE KARDIATEC PULVAD

  1. Recovery of the innate heart function
  2. Safe implant, explant, or deactivation
  3. Low cost to manufacture
  4. Simplicity means fewer points of failure
  5. Better cardiac sensing (5 pericardial ECG leads)
  6. Inexpensive driver (available in every hospital)
  7. Expansion of market to patients with less severe HF and cities and  countries without sophisticated medical centers

 

The PULVAD implantation procedure

  1. Median sternotomy
  2. No extracorporeal circulation
  3. Brief partial clamping of the ascending aorta
  4. Simple and feasible for any cardiac, vascular or thoracic surgeon in a general hospital

 

Patients and patients' relatives
  • Enables the heart to recover
  • Increases life expectancy
  • Suitable for patients with no alternative treatment
  • Contributes to patients quality of life
  • When the treatment with PULVAD is finished, the patient is able to return  to his daily routine with no need for  further mechanical support
  • No need for further routine monitoring and medical treatment
  • Safe implantation and explantation intrathoracic ECG
  • Compatible with a variety of console systems/external power units  available in every CCU and SICU (e.g. Arrow AutoCAT 2)
Healthcare system
  • Low manufacturing cost
  • Lower cost and hospitalization time
  • Suitable for patients with less severe but worsening heart failure aiming recovery
  • Suitable for underdeveloped countries that do not have modern cardiac surgery centers
Medical Personnel
  • Simple implantation and explantation surgery
  • A lesser experienced surgeon would also be able to perform the implantation and explantation
  • Lack of complexity means less points of failure