WorldHeart Appoints New President and CEO
...ree from the University of Kentucky at Lexington . Jal S. Jassawalla, WorldHeart's President and CEO since 2004 and co-founder of the original novacor Medical Corporation, commented that, "I join WorldHeart's Board of Directors and employees in welcoming Alex to WorldHeart and the exciting and promis...Device helps patients survive, regain function til transplant
...splantation. The center also offers extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), the Thoratec and original HeartMate ventricular assist devices, the novacor ventricular assist device, the Orqis and TandemHeart devices that are attached to the circulatory system outside the body, and the Abiomed device. Soo...Implantable pumps extend lives of patients too sick for transplant
...at only 14 percent of normal strength. The pump tested in the trial was the novacor device, which is produced by WorldHeart, Oakland, Calif. "While the surv... Another technological challenge involves the pump itself, Rogers said. The novacor device is a pulsatile pump which contains blood in a polyurethane sack. The...