First Heart Pump for Children has been available

Medical equipment designed specifically for children are very little. That is why doctors and surgeons who treat cases of children always have a big challenge. Fortunately, now has available the first heart pump for children with heart failure.

This device is intended specifically for pediatric patients who are too small to receive a heart implant. Agency for Food and Drug Administration in the United States or The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that the heart of Berlin will be used to keep children alive until it can receive a heart transplant.

Heart failure is rare in children but these devices are required of children who experience it. This device has been approved under the special program for a disease that strikes nearly 4,000 patients per year.

In infants, the time waiting for a heart transplant can be done is more than four months. Nearly a quarter of all babies babies died while awaiting transplant. And 17 percent of children died when his name is in the transplant waiting list. With the device is expected to suppress the number of infant deaths due to heart failure while awaiting surgery.

In a news release HuffingtonPOst, Monday (12/19/2011), system of children's cardiac device called 'Excor' was made in various sizes to accommodate all patients, from infants to teens.

This equipment has been tested on 48 patients and showed that the implanted device Excor patients survived longer than patients who are using a device similar to a heart-lung machine.