Abiomed Launches Virtual Physician Education Program, CAMP PCI, to Improve High-Risk PCI Patient Outcomes

Today, Abiomed (NASDAQ: ABMD) launches a cutting-edge digital education platform called CAMP PCI, which stands for Coronary Artery & Myocardial Protected Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, to improve patient outcomes and quality of life with supported high-risk PCI by utilizing best practices, techniques and technologies to enable safer, more effective and complete revascularization. The launch of the platform, online at CAMPPCI.org, comes on the heels of CAMP PCI’s first live virtual training that took place on June 5 and was attended by invited physicians from North America and Europe.

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Members of CAMP PCI’s faculty take questions from physician participants during the first virtual training on June 5, 2020, broadcast live from Abiomed’s Heart Recovery Institute. (Photo: Business Wire)

CAMP PCI leverages contemporary and advanced digital content, such as live virtual observerships and proctorships from world-renowned interventional cardiologists, and educational modules designed for all levels of clinical expertise. The broad-based and advanced curriculum covers topics such as access and closure technology optimization, advanced imaging, therapeutic best practices for coronary artery disease (CAD), and the importance of Impella hemodynamic support in appropriately selected high-risk patients to achieve safe and complete revascularization. Learn more about CAMP PCI in this online video from the expert faculty of leaders in interventional cardiology.

“As interventional cardiologists, we are in need of an online, continuous education and training platform focused on supported high-risk PCI,” said William O’Neill, MD, medical director of the Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Hospital. “CAMP PCI will help us learn how to better protect the myocardium and improve overall outcomes in this complex patient population.”

“As educational courses and meetings for PCI and complete revascularization become increasingly limited, the need for advanced online and interactive training and education has grown. CAMP PCI was developed to respond to this need to treat patients with coronary artery disease and heart failure, and to address the need for continuous improvement in contemporary PCI techniques and tools,” said Seth Bilazarian, M.D., vice president, medical education and training at Abiomed and the physician leader of CAMP PCI. “In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for digital and on-demand medical education.”