Interventional cardiology
Position the pump across the aortic valve and check it as you would in practice: on fluoroscopy, on echo and on the console.
Free. Nothing to install. On desktop, tablet or phone.
The simulator
01Simulated fluoroscopy
Six preset projections, or any angle on the angle map, with the pump, the pigtail and the valve plane in each. RAO 30° shows the depth but not reliably the rotation: for that, LAO 60°, LAO 90° or the three-chamber view (RAO 60° caudal 45°).
02Echo
A caliper from the inlet to the aortic annulus shows the depth (target about 3.5 cm). The same view shows the rotation: inlet and pigtail toward the apex, concave side of the cannula facing the septum. Color Doppler shows the outflow jet above the valve, or a mosaic in the outflow tract if the outlet has dropped below it.
03Console
If the pump slips back into the aorta, the motor current flattens and an alarm goes off. If the inlet sits too shallow or too deep while the outlet stays in the aorta, or the pump is malrotated, the console can look normal: only imaging shows it. Motor current and flow also change with the P-level.
04Guided cases
A pump found in the aorta after transfer, an inlet caught in the mitral apparatus, a pump entirely in the ventricle, and a pump that is too shallow, too deep or malrotated. Each comes with an objective, a checklist and a written debrief.
05Also included
Selective left and right injections with JL3.5 and JR4, as from right radial access, on a right-dominant anatomy, in 21 guided views. Select a segment to see its name and SYNTAX number, its foreshortening in the current projection and the views that show it best. Free exploration, without cases or debrief.
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Who it is for
Operators practice positioning. The ICU team practices recognizing a pump that has moved. Educators get ready-made cases to teach with.
Questions
Yes. No payment details are requested.
No. It is a simulator for education and training, not for clinical use: do not use it to diagnose, treat, plan or guide procedures on real patients. It does not replace the manufacturer’s training, the instructions for use or supervised practice. See the terms of use.
A generic transvalvular microaxial flow pump, sized like the percutaneous 14 Fr class, with that class’s target depth (inlet about 3.5 cm below the aortic annulus). Geometry is schematic and console signals are simplified, based on public regulatory documents. It does not reproduce any manufacturer’s design, name or screens. The main references are on the sources page.
No. Console signals are fixed teaching values that depend only on the pump position and the P-level; the patient’s hemodynamics are not modeled.
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Write to contacts@cardiodrome.com. Corrections from people who place and manage these pumps are the most useful feedback.
No. It also includes a coronary angiography module, with 21 guided views in the standard and working projections.
I plan to add more modules. Which procedure would you like to practice? Write to contacts@cardiodrome.com, or tick the news box in the form to hear when a new module is ready.
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The simulator is in English; this site is also in Italian.
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