Go with the Flow
Monitor this
That's Alarming
Mixed Bag
What does the Autologs say
100
A real-time, generated depiction of flow through the HVAD pump throughout the cardiac cycle
What is a waveform
100
Where can you permanently silence a medium priority alarm?
Alarm Settings
100
Always associated with power
What is a low priority alarm
100
How many volts does the Unapproved Software Controller start the pump at?
What is 13 volts?
100
If a patient has atypical motor starts where will the information be reported in the Autologs report?
What is the additional notes?
200
These scenarios could cause what to the flow and pulsatility?
Low flow/High pulsatility
200
The button that must be depressed on the monitor to prevent [VAD Stop] alarms during controller set up
What is disable VAD stop alarm?
200
No display on screen, no light on the triangle, continuous audible tone. 
What is the no power alarm?
200
Patients with affected devices may present with signs and symptoms that resemble pump thrombus. In all four (4) instances the following were consistently encountered: – Suspected Thrombus – High Watt Alarms – Grinding sound
Pump Center Post Weld FCA
200
What is a pump thrombus.
300
When the differential pressure increases(difference between LVP and AoP), the flow____?
What is decreases?
300
Data captured every 15 minutes that is submitted to medtronic for analysis
What is logfiles?
300
High watts alarm, Electrical Fault alarm, Low flow alarm, Suction alarm, Controller fault alarm.
What is a medium priority alarm?
300
What is the default set speed of a controller out of the box?
What is 2500 rpm
300
You see this on Autologs what are your concerns?
What is power trending down, and flows trending down. Possible outflow graph occlusion or inflow cannula occlusion,
400
Your patient's waveform trends show this. What would the change be categorized as
What is low flow/low pulsatility?
400
If the disable VAD stop alarm is active and a controller is not disconnected after programing what has to be done to start the VAD
What is press the start button on the monitor?
400
How to prevent the no power alarm when the alarm adapter is not available
What is press and hold the alarm button and the scroll button until you hear an audible beep?
400
What are the 3 parameters on an atypical motor start report and what are the maximum values?
32.0 Watts
8.5 Volts
3.8 amps
400
What is an inflow cannula occlusion?
500
Flow through the HVAD Pump is generated by 3 factors
What is
LVP: pressure at the inflow cannula
AOP: aortic pressure
RPM: pump speed
500
Recommendation for these 2 alarms are “2 Below and 2 Above”
What is low flow and high watts?
500
First action taken when a controller fault or electrical fault alarm is displayed on the controller
What is down load logfiles?
500
Unknown HVAD patient comes to the E.D. for controller fault alarm. What are 3 things you would want to know about the VAD?
Subgroup patient.
Atypical motor starts
Download logfiles
500
Judging by this Autolog report list 3 possible causes for the pulsatility.
What is speed to low
Recovery
Hypertension