When LVAD placement began, there were very few recipients. Consequently, limiting the initial number of nurses who took the classes allowed them to become proficient in the care of patients with ...

Connie Bowling, a 75-year-old deaf patient from Forsyth County, received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in March ...

Placing an external ventricular drain (EVD) at bedside using augmented reality (AR) guidance is more precise than freehand ...

The treatment was carried out in September 2024 at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS), which treats cases of ...

Revolutionary balloon and stent procedure reduces recovery time from weeks to days, transforming treatment for patients with mechanical heart pumps.

whereas in a right VAD (RVAD), the inflow cannula is connected to either right atrium or ventricle and the outflow cannula is connected to the pulmonary artery. The pumping chamber can be placed ...

In the United States, obesity is estimated to cause between 280,000 and 374,000 deaths each year and more than $170 billion ...

Once the mechanical circulatory assist device (MCS) heart pump or left ventricular assist device (LVAD ... Services began research in the 1960s on artificial organs and placed the first destination ...

The procedure was conducted on a 49-year-old woman, the wife of an Armed Forces veteran, who had been waiting for a heart transplant for over two years. The HeartMate 3 LVAD, often referred to as ...