The newly studied heart pump device is the size of a AA battery.
New promising data finds that a small heart pump device the size of a AA battery could help keep children in need of aThe device is not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and will need more study. But experts say it's a real medical advancement for hundreds of children with heart failure.
Currently, the only ventricular assist device for children whose hearts are failing is the Berlin Heart, which can weigh up to 200 pounds depending on the model and connects to a child using two large blood tubes the size of garden hoses. In these cases, children may endure weekslong to monthslong hospital stays with the Berlin Heart ventricular assist device attached to them while waiting for news of a donor heart.
" is a novel opportunity where we could have a new ventricular assist device that would allow infants and young children to potentially go home," Marino said, adding that it could "potentially de-compress our cardiac intensive care units, which will allow for increased capacity, as well as provide an improved quality of life for the children and their families while they are waiting for heart transplantation at home.
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