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CONNECT THE CONNECTOR CABLE
1. Remove the Impella RP
catheter, including its connector, for damage.
2. Remove the white connector cable from its package using sterile technique.
3. Inspect the cable for damage, including damage to the connector pins at the controller
end.
4. Secure the grey end of the cable to the sterile field.
5. Insert the catheter plug into the connector cable socket (grey end). The tab and the slot
must be aligned during connection (see Figure 4).
Figure 4 Inserting the Catheter Plug into the Connector Cable
6. Pull back on the connection to make sure that the plug has snapped into place.
7. Snap the purge clip (located on the pressure reservoir of the clear sidearm) to the
connector cable as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5 Snapping Purge Clip to Connector Cable
8. Pass the sterile connector cable from the Impella RP
9. Line up the notch on the connector cable with the notch in the blue catheter plug on the
front of the Automated Impella
Impella RP ® with the Automated Impella
Catheter from its package using sterile technique and inspect the
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Controller and plug the cable into the controller.
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® Controller
Catheter off the sterile field.
Important Step
Snapping the purge clip
on the pressure reservoir
to the connector cable is
important to prevent the
tube from kinking.
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