Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate, Intensivist Maimonides Medical Center Jericho, New York
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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.
Learning Objectives:
Describe what patients get LVAD implantation, and the goals of placing the LVAD for these patients
List the common types of LVAD and its associated components, settings and alarms/warnings
Develop an organized approach to assess and treat a crashing unstable LVAD patient and assess common issues in stable LVAD patients
Describe what patients get LVAD implantation, and the goals of placing the LVAD for these patients