Heart Pump Devices: Transforming Cardiac Care with Advanced Support Technologies
Heart pump devices have become one of the most transformative innovations in modern cardiac care, offering new hope to patients living with severe heart failure and life-threatening cardiac conditions. These devices are engineered to support or fully replace the pumping function of a weakened heart, allowing patients to maintain adequate blood circulation when natural cardiac output is no longer sufficient. With continuous advancements in design, biocompatibility, and miniaturization, heart pump technologies are playing an increasingly vital role in bridging patients to recovery, transplantation, or long-term support.
At their core, heart pump devices are mechanical systems that assist the ventricles—the heart’s major pumping chambers. The most widely used category is the ventricular assist device (VAD), which includes left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), right ventricular assist devices (RVADs), and biventricular assist devices (BiVADs). Among these, LVADs are the most common since the…