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.
Hundreds of thousands of Hmong have since left Southeast Asia and brought the intriguing Hmong culture to distant parts of the world. About 3 million Hmong remain in China, 780,000 in Vietnam, 460,000 in Laos, and 150,000 in Thailand. Approximately four million people around the world people speak Hmong, a tonal language. In the 1950s, Christian missionaries developed a written form of Hmong based on the Roman alphabet.