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This review provides a practical understanding of device design, physiology, troubleshooting, and complications for implantable left ventricular assist devices and the total artificial heart.
Provides a practical overview of LVAD and total artificial heart design, physiology, and troubleshooting for non-specialist clinicians.
Engineering advancements have expanded the role for mechanical circulatory support devices in the patient with heart failure. More patients with mechanical circulatory support are being discharged from the implanting institution and will be seen by clinicians outside the immediate surgical or heart‐failure team. This review provides a practical understanding of device design and physiology, general troubleshooting, and limitations and complications for implantable left ventricular assist devices (pulsatile‐flow and continuous‐flow pumps) and the total artificial heart.
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Shah et al. (2011) conducted a review in Heart failure. Mechanical circulatory support devices was evaluated. This review provides a practical understanding of device design, physiology, troubleshooting, and complications for implantable left ventricular assist devices and the total artificial heart.
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