Episode 320: Impella Update with Drs. Essandoh and Cody

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

Jed Wolpaw

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this 320th episdode I welcome Drs. Essandoh and Cody back to the show to discuss the latest data and guidelines around the use of the Impella device and how it compares to IABP and ECMO.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Ackrak.
0:15.6	I'm Jed Walpaw, and I am thrilled to have back some returning guests who listeners will recognize as having been on the show multiple times before.
0:23.8	They provided such fabulous updates and education in the past about all things cardiovascular anesthesia related.
0:30.3	And I'm thrilled to have them back today to talk about the impella device and how we can think about using that and what the updates are on that device.
0:39.3	And so I'm really excited to learn from them and for them to be able to teach all of us.
0:43.6	I have with me, Dr. Joseph Cody, who works as a cardiac anesthesiologist in the community
0:48.6	setting.
0:49.4	He's passionate about both cardiac and general anesthesia, enjoys working with residents and
0:53.1	SR&As and ensuring quality and safety at his institution. And both Joe and Mike, who's our second guest, know each other because, as you may remember, back when Joe was Mike's fellow on this show, Joe was Mike's fellow many years ago. And Joe has no disclosures to make. Now, Dr. Mike Asando, everyone will remember, is a cardiothoracic anesthesiology attending at Ohio State.
1:11.9	He's also a full professor of cardiovascular anesthesiology and assistant dean for graduate medical education.
1:17.2	He does a variety of clinical consulting, and he wants to disclose that he's a clinical consultant for Biomed, Johnson & Johnson, Medtech, the company that makes
1:28.5	the impella.
1:29.7	And so while obviously he does that work, he's going to give us some great information today,
1:33.7	and you can take that as you will.
1:37.0	Gentlemen, thrilled to have you with us on the show.
1:39.9	Thanks for having us.
1:41.2	Thanks for having us, Jed.
1:42.8	All right, Joe, let's start with you.
1:44.9	And tell us first, why did you think it was a good idea to do an update here? We've kind of, I think we've touched on the Impel in the past in other episodes, but there's some updates. And so you thought it'd be a good idea to maybe revisit and do a little more detail. Tell us why. and then give us the background about cardiogenic shock,
2:00.7	which I assume is the main indication for this device.
2:03.7	Yeah, so, um, little more detail. Tell us why and then give us the background about cardiogenic shock, which I assume is the main
2:02.0	indication for this device.
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