Mechanical Circulatory Support — Ambulatory and Community Patient Care
Publication Date: May 30, 2017
Key Points
Key Points
- Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) offers a surgical option for advanced heart failure when optimal medical therapy is inadequate.
- MCS therapy improves prognosis, functional status, and quality of life.
- Ambulatory patients with MCS can span the entire age spectrum from pediatrics to geriatrics.
- Because patients with MCS are becoming increasingly mobile, basic knowledge of equipment is necessary for personnel in public areas such as schools, public transportation, and airplanes/airports.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis
...ionThe primary MCS team should be...
...commended Diagnostics for Assessment of...
...in Patients With a VADHaving trouble view...
...le 3. Causes of VAD AlarmsHaving trouble v...
Pump EvaluationDevice parameters such...
...al ParametersHaving trouble viewing table? Ex...
...ndications and Contraindications to Durable...
Treatment
...eatment...
...al Management The percutaneous lea...
...6. Equipment to Be Transported With Pati...
...g and End of LifeIf psychiatric disability is pr...
...ng and End of Life If psychiatric disabi...