The eHeart™ Design

The eHeart™ requires a less invasive implant procedure, and is intended to reduce the surgical risks associated with present day implant procedures that require cardiopulmonary bypass support. In addition, the non-blood contact design will reduce the potential complications associated with present day direct blood contact devices such as bleeding, hemolysis, thrombosis, stroke and mechanical breakdown potentially causing death. eHeart™ is intended to reduce symptoms of heart failure and associated re-hospitalizations, as well as to improve exercise tolerance, with the potential to assist in the reverse remodeling of the heart and recovery to a better quality of life.

The eHeart™ is comprised of NeoCardial’s a proprietary ventricular compression chamber jacket, inflow and out flow fluid line with percutaneous lead line that is connected to a bed side or wearable external controller driver and a light weight rechargeable dual battery-pack system. The eHeart™ ventricular assist chamber jacket has a proprietary compression design that provides adjunct external pressure to enhance the ventricles’ ejection faction (EF percentage of blood volume moved out of the heart per beat of the heart). This attempts to return the EF as close to normal as possible, reducing heart work load and permitting recovery while improving blood flow to vital organs. The eHeart™ supplements the native pumping capacity of the heart, preserves the heart in its native entirety, as well as its own ability to respond to the cardiac demands of the patient.