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Northshore October 2025
The last thing Dan Wolpert remembers before collapsing in front of the emergency room entrance at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester is shutting his car door behind him. He woke up four days later, after having a heart attack, after having been resuscitated five times, after getting a couple of stents, and after having the Impella 2.5, the world’s smallest heart pump, implanted in his heart. Wolpert was one of the first people in New England to get the Impella. The device had only received FDA approval a few months before. Without it, Wolpert says his heart “definitely was not pumping enough blood to keep me alive.&rdqu
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