Becker's Healthcare December 7, 2022
Here are 42 cardiology firsts Becker’s covered in 2022:
- Columbus-based Ohio State University’s Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital became the first in the world to study the clinical benefits of a device used to treat diastolic heart failure.
- Cardiac surgeons at Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center, part of the Hackensack Meridian health system, performed the first-in-human Impella RP Flex heart pump implant Nov. 8.
- Physicians at Miami-based HCA Florida Mercy Hospital became the first in the state to perform a new procedure called thoraflex hybrid complete aortic replacement.
- Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute became the first in Illinois to successfully transplant a heart donated after circulatory death.
- Minneapolis-based Allina Health opened the state’s first cardiovascular ASC.
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