{"id":32186,"date":"2020-08-26T09:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T14:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=32186"},"modified":"2020-12-02T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:54:18","slug":"medtronic-abbott-covid-patient-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2020\/08\/26\/medtronic-abbott-covid-patient-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Medtronic &#038; Abbott Join Forces to Support You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of the HeartValveSurgery.com community, I would like to extend an extraordinary thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medtronic.com\/us-en\/index.html\">Medtronic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abbott.com\/\">Abbott<\/a> for their support of patients all over the world during COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>So you know\u2026 Medtronic and Abbott, two leading heart valve manufacturers, just did something special.\u00a0 In this difficult and trying time, Medtronic and Abbott joined forces to co-sponsor our \u201cAdvances in COVID-19 &amp; Heart Valve Therapy\u201d webinar.\u00a0 Over 630 patients registered for this educational event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32210 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/Medtronic-Abbott-Heart-Valve-Webinar.jpg\" alt=\"Medtronic &amp; Abbott Support Team Up With HeartValveSurgery.com\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I never imagined that Medtronic and Abbott would unite to support a community event like the upcoming COVID-19 webinar.<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230; When the idea for an educational patient webinar about COVID-19 came up, the wonderful people at these innovative companies took immediate action to help you learn about the management and the treatment of heart valve disease during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>I am downright inspired by the actions of Medtronic and Abbott during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0 So you know, those actions stretch well beyond the webinar and heart valve therapy. Notably, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2020\/03\/27\/medtronic-ventilator-covid-19\/\">Medtronic doubled their ventilator production<\/a> while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2020\/04\/07\/abbott-id-now-covid-19-test\/\">Abbott developed new COVID-19 test technologies<\/a> during the pandemic.\u00a0 Amazing!!!<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of patients with heart valve disease and\/or COVID-19, please help me thank Medtronic and Abbott!!!\u00a0 Without their support, we would not have been able to have this very important webinar!!!<\/p>\n<p>A free eBook from the webinar is now available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/covid-19-ebook\/\">here<\/a>. And, I just posted video playback of the webinar is provided below.\u00a0 (In the next few days, we will also be posting a complimentary eBook for the webinar.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iy4fhVh6cto\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin\u2019 Medtronic and Abbott!!!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32563,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32186\/revisions\/32563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}