Medical innovations: Impella device saves life of man who trains others how to use it

Forty-one-year-old Mark Kader is a husband, father of five, registered nurse, and associate clinical consultant for Abiomed, a medical device company.
He's passionate about educating medical staff how to use the Impella device, because as a cardiac care nurse for 15 years at University Hospitals, he witnessed how many lives the device saved.
"And if I wanted to work for a device company, I'd like to work for a company that helped other people," Mark added in explaining why he took the job with Abiomed.
So, what is the Impella?
"It's been described as a straw with a motor," Kader says. "It literally just takes blood from one chamber of the heart, the left ventricle, and then ejects it out to the rest of the body when the heart isn't able to do it on its own."
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