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 1979, after the Vietnam War, 7,000 Canadian faith and community groups privately sponsored a total of 29,269 refugees, thanks to a grassroots Toronto-based operation known as Operation Lifeline. (This number was out of a total of about 60,000 Indochinese eventually resettled in Canada.) Costs, in time and money.