Immediate post-LVAD implant support: two approaches.

Phillip L Syracuse; Carolyn Yager; Nicholas Smedira; Robert M Savage

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Immediate post-LVAD implant support: two approaches.

Phillip L Syracuse·Carolyn Yager·Nicholas Smedira·Robert M Savage

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Increased use of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) as bridges to transplant has revealed the need for short-term right heart support for deairing and right ventricular recovery. The two approaches described are implemented as the patient is weaned from regular cardiopulmonary bypass. Dependent on patient needs, the surgeon may select a high-flow or low-flow approach to what is essentially right heart bypass. Both methods use the existing venous drainage from the right side of the heart. The higher flow returns blood through a 0.25-in tube connected to a modified adult vent (AV) to the pulmonary artery (PA). This provides flows as high as 3.5 L/min. The low-flow method uses the cardioplegia line, which goes unused during LVAD insertion. It is attached to the same modified AV cannula, placed into the PA, with flows between 400 and 600 ml/min. Each method has its advantages, disadvantages, and quirks. The results are functionally successful in allowing support of the right heart and deairing of the ventricular device.

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Phillip L Syracuse, Carolyn Yager, Nicholas Smedira, Robert M Savage. 2005. Immediate post-LVAD implant support: two approaches.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16524155/

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