Impella App vs PCAC Score
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Impella App
This app offers healthcare professionals immediate access to essential resources for Impella heart pump procedures. It provides step-by-step videos, calculators, and instructions for use, ensuring critical information is available at the point of care, even offline.
- Step-by-step setup and insertion videos
- Personalized experience by role
- Procedure calculators (heparin rate, CPO, PAPi, AKI)
- Interactive patient selection checklist
- Impella instructions for use (IFUs)
- 24/7 Clinical Support Center access
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The Impella® App provides key resources health care professionals can access pre- and post-procedure at the point of care from the cath lab, ICU, OR or while in transport to improve patient outcomes. When patient care is critical, minutes matter. Offline content mode ensures cardiologists, surgeons, nurses, advanced practice providers and medical technicians always have access to the videos, content and algorithms they need. This app provides: - Step-by-step videos on the setup and insertion of Impella heart pumps - Personalized experience based on role and specialty - Calculators such as heparin rate, CPO, PAPi and AKI - Interactive Protected PCI patient selection checklist - Impella instructions for use (IFUs) - Click-to-call access to Abiomed’s 24/7 Clinical Support Center
PCAC Score
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Tool to calculate the Pittsburgh Cardiac Arrest Categories Illness Severity Score, which helps categorize post-cardiac arrest patients in terms of illness severity. This tool provides the questions necessary to calculate the score. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4580975/ for more information. Please note that this tool is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for local protocol, guidelines, or clinical judgement. It does not provide diagnosis or recommendation for medical treatment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PCAC Score at 9.0 against Impella App's 15.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Impella App | PCAC Score |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Abiomed, Inc. | University of Pittsburgh |
In-app purchases
Impella App
No in-app purchases
PCAC Score
No in-app purchases
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