A New Device To Treat Patient’s With Chronic Congestive Heart Failure
August 6, 2007 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Researcher’s at UT Southwestern Medical Center are studying a new device to treat chronic congestive heart failure. The system uses catheter’s and a very small external pump.
The Cancion System, manufactured by Orqis Medical Corp., is a pump device that is introduced into the body via catheters inserted through tiny incisions in the groin. Once placed, the pump draws blood from the patient’s iliac artery – located in the pelvis – into a small external pump. From there, the blood goes through another catheter placed in the heart’s descending aorta, where it is re-introduced for continuous blood flow.
Thus it will improve heart function, ie. muscle function, without replacing the heart or most of it’s parts. Much less invasive and less risky then a transplant. This will hopefully give chronic heart failure patients a longer amount of time outside the hospital and a more “normal” style life.
What do you think? Would you be willing to be a part of a study like this? Are you as excited as me over the prospects of this type of system improving cardiac patients quality of life?
