What is?
A mechanical device implanted in a patient who has severe heart failure to assist the heart in pumping blood
What is a VAD? Ventricular Assist Device
With a battery source
How is the LVAD powered when the patient is traveling through the hospital?
Driveline, Controller and Batteries
What are the three main components a VAD patient will travel with?
A CSS must travel with you
Who must travel with you when transporting a VAD patient anywhere in the hospital?
What powers the patient's VAD while in the room?
Battery Charger, System Monitor, Power Module, Mobile Power Module
What are 4 things you will see in a patient's room to identify them as an VAD patient?
A CSS must travel with you on the 1st time
The CSS must take extra batteries
What is a must the CSS must take with them to travel with a patient?
Postpone on your patient
Because the blood flows through both the pump and the heart.