Edwards Masters vs Valve PPM

Edwards Masters, a Professional Education platform for cardio-thoracic surgeons. At Edwards Lifesciences, we are dedicated to providing innovative solutions for people fighting cardiovascular disease. In the framework of Professional Education programs, we created Edwards Masters, a Professional Education iOS-based digital platform for cardio-thoracic surgeons. Through high-end content, now also available offline, we aim to provide to the community the best tools to treat patients. Education. In order to achieve this target we’ll deliver several different format of educational content, appropriately personalized for the members of the community. A large selection of scientific resources such as case studies, courses, latest updates on the field with a focus on the most contributive publications, PowerPoints presentations support, opinion leaders’ best practices, and a lot more will we offered. We believe that the community needs to work together and share high-end education in order to reach new horizons, and ultimately improve patients’ health and Healing.

Valve PPM is an innovative mobile tool developed to support echocardiography professionals in their effort of assessing the functionality of implanted prosthetic cardiac valves. The application provides guidelines for assessing an already implanted valve (Check Valve Function) and for choosing a valve before implantation (Optimal Valve Selector). The algorithms behind the App have been derived after an extensive research of the published materials on the aortic and mitral prosthetic valve assessment. - Check Valve Function After selecting a particular valve type, the patient characteristics (weight/height) and the prosthesis actual parameters (peak velocity, mean gradient, VTI prosthesis, VTI LVOT and LVOTd), Valve PPM will provide the user with an answer regarding the normal function of the valve, the potential patient prosthesis mismatch or the intrinsic prosthesis dysfunction. - Optimal Valve Selector The user will be required to select a valve position (aortic/mitral) and the patient characteristics (weight/height) and Valve PPM will instantly indicate the minimum Effective Orifice Area (EOA) in order to avoid Patient Prosthesis Mismatch (PPM).