{"id":4040,"date":"2011-12-16T12:12:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-approves-mechanical-cardiac-assist-device-for-children-with-heart-failure\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:12:41","slug":"fda-approves-mechanical-cardiac-assist-device-for-children-with-heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-approves-mechanical-cardiac-assist-device-for-children-with-heart-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves mechanical cardiac assist device for children with heart failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a medical device that supports the weakened heart of children with heart failure to help keep them alive until a donor for a heart transplant can be found. <\/p>\n<p>The mechanical pulsatile cardiac assist device is called the EXCOR Pediatric System, made by a German company, Berlin Heart. The device comes in graduated sizes to fit children from newborns to teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a medical device that supports the weakened heart of children with heart failure to help keep them alive until a donor for a heart transplant can be found. The mechanical pulsatile cardiac assist device is called the EXCOR Pediatric System, made by a German company, Berlin Heart. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-approves-mechanical-cardiac-assist-device-for-children-with-heart-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FDA approves mechanical cardiac assist device for children with heart failure<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-reacalls-safety-notices-information","category-drug-safety-information-podcasts","category-food-drug-recalls","category-food-safety-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}