CAE Healthcare Delivers Simulation-based Training Solution To Abiomed

(RTTNews) - CAE Healthcare, a unit of Canadian aviation-training and simulation products provider CAE, Inc. (CAE, CAE.TO) Saturday said it is delivering a simulation-based solution to Abiomed, Inc. (ABMD), a provider of breakthrough heart support technologies, for its Impella heart pump education programs.

CAE Healthcare's announcement was at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, or TCT 2014, the world's largest educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine.

Using the CAE VIMEDIX platform as a springboard, CAE developed a training solution for Abiomed's education program that integrates a custom ultrasound simulator. The simulator allows physicians to practice the placement of Abiomed's Impella device in the left ventricle in real-time, under fluoroscopy and transesophageal echo, as well as transthoracic echo for monitoring.

"CAE Healthcare is proud to have been selected by Abiomed, a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technologies, as its partner of choice to develop a custom simulation solution to help improve its education programs," said Robert Amyot, President of CAE Healthcare.