{"id":225451,"date":"2026-02-25T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-inbit.dev-praxis.gr\/?post_type=hta_library&#038;p=225451"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:31:51","slug":"percutaneous-ventricular-assist-devices-a-health-technology-assessment","status":"publish","type":"hta_library","link":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/hta_library\/percutaneous-ventricular-assist-devices-a-health-technology-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Devices: A Health Technology Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;The Impella device is a percutaneous ventricular assist device that has a small pump at one end of a thin, flexible tube. It is implanted through an artery in the leg and pumps blood from the left ventricle through the heart valve into a blood vessel called the ascending aorta. The other end of the tube is connected to a special control system (console) outside the body that controls the pump rate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This review looked at how well the Impella percutaneous ventricular assist device works and how safe it is for patients. It also considered how much the device costs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Percutaneous ventricular support with Impella can help to maintain blood flow and blood pressure during high-risk heart procedures and when the heart suddenly cannot pump enough blood (cardiogenic shock). However, percutaneous ventricular support with Impella does not lower death rates; nor is it safer or cheaper than usual treatment with balloon pumps. The economic evaluation shows that Impella devices do not provide a better value for money than balloon pumps for treating patients who receive high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[17],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-225451","hta_library","type-hta_library","status-publish","hentry","category-full-reports","tag-percutaneous-ventricular-assist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hta_library\/225451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hta_library"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/hta_library"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}