Provider Education & Training
HeartMate 3™ LVAD
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Training
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Resources
HeartMate 3™ LVAD
Looking for a little more? Check out some of the extra credit resources below.
ACTION One Page Summary (OPS)
HeartMate 3TM LVAD Algorithms and Care Guide
Visit Emergency Care to download a pocket-size reference guide
IRL VADS: Heartmate 3TM LVAD
Below are videos from ACTION’s IRL (In Real Life) VADs webinar session held on August 4, 2022.
Part 1: Daily VAD Life, How to Conduct Daily Rounds, and Alarms
Boston Children’s
Part 2: Initiating and Bridging Anticoagulation
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Part 3: Finding the Right Settings and PI
Cincinnati Children’s
Part 4: Echocardiography and Cardiac Catheterization
Texas Children’s Hospital
Part 5: Outpatient Issues: Driveline Infection, ER, CT Scan Protocol
Lurie Children’s
Part 6: Doppler Blood Pressures: Measuring and Management
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Videos
Fontan HeartMate 3™ LVAD Surgical Case
Surgical case conducted by Dr. David Morales showing an implantation of the HeartMate 3 in a 22 year old congenital patient with a Fontan as a bridge to heart liver transplant.
HeartMate 3™ LVAD Surgical Case
Surgical case conducted by Dr. David Morales showing an implantation of the HeartMate 3 in a small 10 year old pediatric patient with Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
ACTION Experience with the HeartMate 3™ LVAD
March 2021 Webinar Video
HeartMate 3™ LVAD Driveline Dressing Change
Instructional video
ACTION Harmonized Protocols
Other
VAD Controller Change Out Video Game
Check out our VAD-Venture Controller Change-Out simulation app for iOS. This simulation game is designed to help patients & caregivers practice changing out the HeartMate 3™ LVAD controller. Don’t have iOS? Practice here.
What should patients know about the HeartMate 3™ LVAD?
Check out our HeartMate 3™ LVAD information for Patient & Caregivers.
