These patients get what’s called an LVAD — a left ventricular assist device — which helps pump their blood, and it can truly be a lifesaver. “I was two weeks from being dead — my body ...

Abstract and Introduction Education for Treatment of LVAD Recipients Emerging Issues ... to prevent irritation to the site with consequent infection, and to prevent the wires from being damaged ...

The development of left ventricular assist devices could be considered an 'imaginative leap'. In the current phase of critical evaluation of these devices, a study of patients who received first ...

Long now relies on a left ventricular assist device (LVAD ... vital role in mitigating a patient’s risk of life-threatening infections especially in the first year after transplant.

After some time in the hospital, Meli was scheduled for a surgery to place a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD), a device that will pump Meli's heart for her. "I'm sitting on this operating bed ...

Left ventricular assist devices, which are mechanical heart pumps, are an important treatment for patients with advanced ...