Taming the Crashing LVAD. How to Resuscitate Your Mechanical Patient

Session Description: EMS gives you a notification that a critically ill LVAD patient is arriving. What are you going to do if they have no pulse? Can I do chest compressions? How do I figure out the blinking yellow and red signs on the LVAD controller? Do the LVAD warning, alarms help me troubleshoot my patient's problems in any way? Come walk through a case of a stable and unstable LVAD patient and develop a systematic approach to stabilize, assess, manage and treat two LVAD patients. Afterwards, you might feel like a pro and say I can handle the next LVAD patient.