July 18, 2014. Per the manufacturer (Abiomed), the ImpellaÂ® Heart Device/ Circulatory Support System is a: minimally invasive percutaneous catheter based support device, designed to provide partial circulatory support.
According to the 2011 census, Canada has 157,450 people who identify as ethnically Vietnamese. The majority of Vietnamese Canadians reside in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, with some having lived in Quebec before 1975.
In the 2010-14 period, one in three Vietnamese immigrants lived in one of three U.S. cities: the greater Los Angeles, San Jose, and Houston metropolitan areas. More than half (56 percent) resided in the top ten metropolitan areas (see Table 1).