Now available! First Heart Pumps for Children

News Health Articles - Now available! First Heart Pumps for Children. Until now, medical devices designed specifically for children is still very small. It makes a big challenge for physicians and surgeons who treat cases of childhood disease. Currently available tools fortunately had the first heart pump for children who suffer from heart failure.

This device is intended specifically for pediatric patients. Often times patients are too small to receive the implant of heart. Agency for Food and Drug Administration in the United States or The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states that the heart of Berlin will be used to keep kids alive until they can receive heart transplants from donors.



Although cardiac failure rarely occurs in children, this device still needs the children who experience it. This device has been approved under the special program for a disease that strikes nearly 4,000 patients per year.

In infants, the waiting times of more than four months to do a heart transplant. Baby died while awaiting transplant nearly a quarter of all babies. when his name is in the transplant waiting list 17 ​​percent of children died. With the device is expected to suppress the number of infant deaths due to heart failure while awaiting surgery.

In a news release HuffingtonPOst, Monday (12/19/2011), 'Excor' designation for cardiac device system tools these children are made in various sizes to accommodate all patients, from infants to teens.

Excor device has been tested on 48 patients and showed that the implanted patients survived longer than patients who use a device similar to a heart-lung machine.

New hope for cute generation, children.