My mother is going through this now she has he the lvad put in on Monday this week and she hasn’t talked yet. We’re you able to speak couple days after surgery?
Thank you for the videos,because being the patient you really don't know what you are going through.I say that because I'm a LVAD patient just had it done a month ago and I had to have double because it shifted which was done four days apart I want to thank the LVAD TEAM AT METHODIST CENTER MAIN HOSPITAL IN SAN ANTONIO I LOVE Y'ALL AND ALL THE RN AND LVN THAT TOOK CARE OF ME AND THE THERAPY TEAM AS WELL I ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO NOT IGNORE THE SIGNS.I'M 42yrs old SO DON'T BELIEVE THAT"HEART AS A AGE TO IT"BECAUSE I HAD MY FIRST ONE AT 30AND IT WENT DOWN HILL AFTER THAT BUT GOD IS GOOD MY STORY CAN GO ON BECAUSE IT'S A LOT BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHARE BECAUSE I JUST SAY WHAT I HAD TO GO THROUGH SO THANKS AGAIN
the main reason I watched this video is that on "Chicago Med " last night, a patient was brought in who had one of these. And being unfamiliar with this device, I was curious about them. I have a deep interest in medical procedures and advances, And very much enjoyed your video. Very instructional and interesting. Thank You!
I just remembered an emotional episode from Greys anatony when Izzie stevens cut her fiancés(denny duquette) LVAD out of desperation for him to immediately acquire the heart for his transplant. I cried that time and got carried away 😭
I have systolic heart failure from Holt-Oram Syndrome. I'm only 31. I already have a pacemaker, but it's looking like this is what they are going to give me. To say I'm terrified is an understatement. I don't really know if there is a word in the English language to adequately convey the sense of existential terror and dread I'm feeling, but I can say, thank you for the informative and easy to understand video. It makes accepting my lot a *little* less scary when I can at least understand how it works and what it entails.
I really enjoy watching your videos. I am a nursing student so your videos explain procedures in such a way that I am able to know what my patients are going through.
Just two weeks before this Christmas I was diagnosed with diastolic dysfunction and I've been having a hard time . Now my pressure is uncontrolled, I'm hardly ever out the house because I get weak as if I'm walking on noodles for legs, I'm no longer hungry much, I have extreme chest pain and palpitations and a overall feeling of sickness . If this surgery can save my life , i sure hope my doctor hurry his a** up!
Hi sir, the videos which you posting really great, these videos are not helping students but also helping many HealthCare professionals in their job to understand the concept. I have a request, could you please make a video regarding differences between IMPELLA/IABP/LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSISTING DEVICE and in which conditions these are use. That would help a lot of people students n health care professionals. Thank you in advance and happy n prosperous new year in advance to team n all. 🎉🎉
devices like this amaze me...only a short while ago there was basically nothing...no bypass...no transplant...nothing. science has come so far in only a generation's time....i'm dumbfounded by imagining what will come in the future.
My mom is getting an LVAD installed on Tuesday. Super nervous but I know this is the best thing to do. If anyone has any advice on how to live life with this device please reply to my comment!!!
I know a wise guy who has a HeartMate 3 implanted. He's had it for 5 years now and he got used to it. In the first hours he was asking: Does it worth living life like this? And now replacing/charging batteries is just another daily routine for him. Like: let's imagine you purchase a smartwatch with a one-day battery. Your job is to keep the battery charged and the watch powered on at all costs. You are doing this to your mobile phone. The LVAD (I mean the HeartMate 3) has three batteries. If one drains, an advisory alarm sounds and you replace the discharged battery. If the second one drains you replace that one too and you are good to go for another 12-17 hours. If you fail to exchange the first two batteries, the controller discharges them as far as it can, and when it happened, it will start using the built-in battery in the System controller. At the same time this battery is in use, the controller slows down the pump to a (by-doctor) pre defined minimum value to decrease power consumption. The doctors say the battery can provide 15 minutes of life. I disagree. The battery is a ~12Wh battery. An average pump uses about 6W of power normally so that's 2 hours of time, assuming the pump doesn't slow down. But the pump does slow down to decrease power consumption. To what amount? I have no idea. Another safety mechanism unrelated to batteries: The pump's rotor has two redundant motor coil shrouds. If one fails, an alarm goes off and your pump operates normally. The driveline also has redundant lines to the pump. Only aircrafts and perhaps space rockets have this kind of redundancy built in.
My dad had an l-vad put in last year. It keeps the left side of his heart pumping because it was stopping because of congestive heart failure. He puts in battery’s using a control on the outside of his body. He is currently in the hospital awaiting surgery. At 6am tomorrow morning he will be having s heart transplant. I am so stressed, I’m terrified
@@hotlatino7220 Left Ventricular Assist Device is only for patients awaiting heart transplant. It does not serve the purpose of day to day routine life. I enquired about it from a cardiologist.
Beautifully explained .I m aheartfailure patientwith ICD .Recently I had to be hospitalised twice in the month of july'23 with complaint of shortness of breath.I just want to know what are probable complications and survibility rate and lastly probable cost in India(Bangalore).
The topic of a lvad came up during a lecture, and my instructor said "yeah, there's a question about that on your test." Then skipped to the next slide, without going to any more detail.
Nah I'm here because my uncle died 3 days ago of congestive heart failure and I'm angry at the medical community and science that they weren't able to fix it. In an age where tech companies make billions every year you would have thought one would have solved problems like heart failure by now, considering a large majority of people on earth are dieing by heart failure nowadays.
I just had a echocardiogram which mostly was good I'm 44 I already have congestive heart failure now my heart walls are starting to thicken and I talk to a cardiologist on zoom. I'm staying postive but a little nervous
There have been cases were LVADs can effectively replace the heart. New developments in artificial hearts are moving away from the Jarvik era and more toward LVADs on steroids. A popular science article describes the Jarvik era as akin to achieving flight by duplicating a birds wing flap. The body may have evolved for pulse beats, but it can do just fine with a continuous flow pump. Yes even the lymph system can do fine. Given these facts...it is possible to make hearts so cheap, you could buy them off the counter. As for what if it fails? That's why you could have an array of backup hearts. If one fails, the others can take over.
I am alive thanks to an LVAD. Buying one "off the shelf" is a wet dream of yours. There are faaaaar faar far more parameters to be taken into account. You don't just clip it on like a spare part for a car engine and leave. The operation is a critical as a heart transplant which I am currently awaiting and have been for the past 3 years. Nice to see people so positive about it, but don't think it's THAT simple a device ! Heart transplant is like working on a 12 cylinder engine Indy car WHILE it is racing. There is NO come in to the pits and we'll have that done for you Sir. Wake up.
ScorpioQueen I'm so sorry for the loss of your father. Prayers of comfort to you. I wish heart failure and end stage kidney disease weren't so connected. This is a difficult journey. Again, prayers of comfort to you.
forgive my ignorance but could you please answer a question would it ever. be offered or seem a good option to a cardiologist to perform this operation/ chance of a better life on a 89 year old man with end stage?
I just got tests back showing Dysfunction LV. Global hypokinesis Grade I. Tricuspid regurgitation and Mitral valve regurg. Will they treat me with meds? SOB upon exertion and real bad nausea throughout the day.
The LVAD is getting input from the left ventricle and nowadays continuous flow blood pumps are widely used for this devices. As the pump is getting pulsatile blood input from the left ventricle, then how can it deliver the continuous blood to the aorta?
I think it's because the pulsatile blood was pulsed by the heart. If the LVAD creates a continuous flow then no pulsation should happen. Am I right? Also: Does the blood really pulse into the heart? The body's blood vessels (the lungs to be specific) are pretty soft. This may dampen the pulses to a continuous flow. May we see pulsing because at each beat of the heart we can see a high pressure in the heart which closes the valves, which causes the incoming blood to stop, hence pulsing.
He'llo my baby is suffering from bi vantrical dysfunction she is on iv fluids and oral medication but her health is not improving & she can't eat anything & going weak day by day what should we do drs don't guide us properly
I'm hear reviewing some thing I need to have a better understanding of thing for work. Its hard to watch Hospital TV dramas when you work in hospital. Lol my woman always kicks me out🤣. I was one of those "hated izzy" people tho.
The video has a HeartMate 2 shown. Theoretically "maybe" but actually "no". The HeartMate 3 is an even stronger "NO" because the third version uses an electromagnetically levitated, and hydrodinamical bearing-enabled impeller. There is absolutely zero metal-to-metal contact, nothing ever wears out on that model.
You may have had a HeartMate XVE. It's a pulsatile pump with air-pressure driven driveline. I guess it isn't a surprise for you but for everyone else it may be: You get a handpump with the HeartMate XVE and if (should ever happen) the system controller fails, you hook up the handpump and start pumping. (I mean the caregiver. Not the patient.) Two generations since had passed. Now the HeartWare and the HeartMate 3 are current. (Actually the HeartWare is out of comission because 0.21% (or something like that) of patients reported problems with their pump.)
Take your charger and batteries (before you run out of charged batteries) to a hospital and plug in and charge your batteries. They will understand, I have first hand experience with this. Hospitals have backup power systems.
You can go to any emergency facility including hospitals, firehouses, police stations and plug into their generators. My grandfather had an lvad and he’s currently living with us. If anything were to happen to the power we have to take him to any of the facilities so that he does not run out of power.
I have no information about the HeartMate 2 but I have some about the HeartMate 3. These LVAD systems use Li-Ion battery packs, not AA alkaline batteries. The LVAD (I mean the HeartMate 3) has three batteries. If one drains, an advisory alarm sounds and you replace the discharged battery. If the second one drains you replace that one too and you are good to go for another 12-17 hours. If you fail to exchange the first two batteries, the controller discharges them as far as it can, and when it happened, it will start using the built-in battery in the System controller. At the same time this battery is in use, the controller slows down the pump to a (by-doctor) pre defined minimum value to decrease power consumption. The doctors say the battery can provide 15 minutes of life. I disagree. The battery is a ~12Wh battery. An average pump uses about 6W of power normally so that's 2 hours of time, assuming the pump doesn't slow down. But the pump does slow down to decrease power consumption. To what amount? I have no idea. Another safety mechanism unrelated to batteries: The pump's rotor has two redundant motor coil shrouds. If one fails, an alarm goes off and your pump operates normally. The driveline also has redundant lines to the pump. Only aircrafts and perhaps space rockets have this kind of redundancy built i
SPCSHARKNADO 6170 there are a lot of complications that come with an lvad. You constantly have to be plugged into a battery. The transitional therapy takes a minimum of 4 months, and that’s if you have no complications. You can’t drive for a long time, you can’t play contact sports ever, you’re on a slew of expensive medications, you can’t shower more than once a week. You have a tube coming out of your body for the rest of you’re life. This is really only supposed to be transitional, unless your ineligible for a heart transplant. My grandfather has one and it’s the only thing keeping him alive. And it’s not going to keep him alive forever, it’s just extending his life a little longer. They’re not magic.
Neil Benjamin I absolutely agree! It’s the start of a new life for him and it’s 110% better than the situation he was in pre surgery. But my comment was addressing the thought that this is an easy solution to heart disease. This is not an easy procedure to go through and isn’t for everybody.
I am a destination LVAD patient, this unit has saved my life so far
My mother is going through this now she has he the lvad put in on Monday this week and she hasn’t talked yet. We’re you able to speak couple days after surgery?
I m also a destination lvad. Gonna be getting it soon. I find it really scary. I m 32.
@@sophielandman5301 wow so young hope all goes well
I had one put in march 2019 saved my life im only 29 god bless you all
Eddie Craig wow bro praying for you! You are so young why did you have to get one?
Thank goodness, I’m so glad you’re alive, that’s so cool!
May God be with you,Eddie.
@@ronnieg1341 i got a virus it destroyed the left side of my heart so they diagnosed me with cardiomyopathy
@@eddiecraig8684 This happened to my friend too. He is 29 this year also.
He got a virus and was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy.
Thank you for the videos,because being the patient you really don't know what you are going through.I say that because I'm a LVAD patient just had it done a month ago and I had to have double because it shifted which was done four days apart I want to thank the LVAD TEAM AT METHODIST CENTER MAIN HOSPITAL IN SAN ANTONIO I LOVE Y'ALL AND ALL THE RN AND LVN THAT TOOK CARE OF ME AND THE THERAPY TEAM AS WELL I ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO NOT IGNORE THE SIGNS.I'M 42yrs old SO DON'T BELIEVE THAT"HEART AS A AGE TO IT"BECAUSE I HAD MY FIRST ONE AT 30AND IT WENT DOWN HILL AFTER THAT BUT GOD IS GOOD MY STORY CAN GO ON BECAUSE IT'S A LOT BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHARE BECAUSE I JUST SAY WHAT I HAD TO GO THROUGH SO THANKS AGAIN
I put my picture on my profile before my lvad and after it's been a little over two months but I'm blessed.....
+Toshira Pounds what's your email address. I want to send you a private message about the lvad
ptoshira@gmail.com
@@ladylove9580 how are you doing today Toshira
@@hotlatino7220 I'm doing much better thank you for asking. How are you?
the main reason I watched this video is that on "Chicago Med " last night, a patient was brought in who had one of these. And being unfamiliar with this device, I was curious about them. I have a deep interest in medical procedures and advances, And very much enjoyed your video. Very instructional and interesting. Thank You!
ahhhh do you like to coooooom?
I just remembered an emotional episode from Greys anatony when Izzie stevens cut her fiancés(denny duquette) LVAD out of desperation for him to immediately acquire the heart for his transplant. I cried that time and got carried away 😭
Andreyya omg I’m glad I’m not the only one that came from greys anatomy
Grey's anatomy has been inspiring me to be an Operating room nurse ❤️
@@christianmendoza2865 what episode???
Jesus woman. DON'T tae a TV show for real !
I wear an LVAD. It was grafted to my heart 3 years ago.
Cut the power supply from the computer and I die.
I have systolic heart failure from Holt-Oram Syndrome. I'm only 31. I already have a pacemaker, but it's looking like this is what they are going to give me. To say I'm terrified is an understatement. I don't really know if there is a word in the English language to adequately convey the sense of existential terror and dread I'm feeling, but I can say, thank you for the informative and easy to understand video. It makes accepting my lot a *little* less scary when I can at least understand how it works and what it entails.
So what happens if you cut the cord to one of these to get your fiancée a heart transplant?
HAHAHSLSLA IZZIE-
that would be LBAD
@@whiskeydeltasix or lmfao
I really enjoy watching your videos. I am a nursing student so your videos explain procedures in such a way that I am able to know what my patients are going through.
Perfect explanation. I was watching grey's anatomy and was curious. I want to be a doctor
Omg, I hope you're just joking around. If you go into medical school based on some movies, you're gonna end up in tears.
The one where izzie cuts the lvad?
My brother is going to have this surgery in 2 days... 😢 but happy this can prolong his life
Just two weeks before this Christmas I was diagnosed with diastolic dysfunction and I've been having a hard time . Now my pressure is uncontrolled, I'm hardly ever out the house because I get weak as if I'm walking on noodles for legs, I'm no longer hungry much, I have extreme chest pain and palpitations and a overall feeling of sickness . If this surgery can save my life , i sure hope my doctor hurry his a** up!
Did you get the treatment you needed?
i’m 16 with an lvad got it when i was 15
You're 22
@@jojojojojojojo-vh6my Yes
Hi sir, the videos which you posting really great, these videos are not helping students but also helping many HealthCare professionals in their job to understand the concept. I have a request, could you please make a video regarding differences between IMPELLA/IABP/LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSISTING DEVICE and in which conditions these are use. That would help a lot of people students n health care professionals. Thank you in advance and happy n prosperous new year in advance to team n all. 🎉🎉
devices like this amaze me...only a short while ago there was basically nothing...no bypass...no transplant...nothing. science has come so far in only a generation's time....i'm dumbfounded by imagining what will come in the future.
Stem cell studies will hopefully progress further. We might be able to grow any organ from your own DNA!
Your Videos makes me passed in our Board Exam (Doctor's Masters Degree)
Congratulations - glad to be of help!
Perhaps you should watch some videos on grammar, doctor?
ClashOfClans Informations wow congrats Good job
@@nick9546, maybe a second language issue. Easy bro.
I love my L VAD it saved my life
My little brother who's 37 just had one put in yesterday Oct 1 2019 and I'm just trying to find out everything I can learn about the unit.
I'm praying for u
how is it going? my dad was requested to have one
How much it costs?
My mom is getting an LVAD installed on Tuesday. Super nervous but I know this is the best thing to do. If anyone has any advice on how to live life with this device please reply to my comment!!!
I do! I have right and left side failure it's hereditary I am so SCARED
I know a wise guy who has a HeartMate 3 implanted. He's had it for 5 years now and he got used to it. In the first hours he was asking: Does it worth living life like this? And now replacing/charging batteries is just another daily routine for him. Like: let's imagine you purchase a smartwatch with a one-day battery. Your job is to keep the battery charged and the watch powered on at all costs.
You are doing this to your mobile phone. The LVAD (I mean the HeartMate 3) has three batteries. If one drains, an advisory alarm sounds and you replace the discharged battery. If the second one drains you replace that one too and you are good to go for another 12-17 hours. If you fail to exchange the first two batteries, the controller discharges them as far as it can, and when it happened, it will start using the built-in battery in the System controller. At the same time this battery is in use, the controller slows down the pump to a (by-doctor) pre defined minimum value to decrease power consumption. The doctors say the battery can provide 15 minutes of life. I disagree. The battery is a ~12Wh battery. An average pump uses about 6W of power normally so that's 2 hours of time, assuming the pump doesn't slow down. But the pump does slow down to decrease power consumption. To what amount? I have no idea.
Another safety mechanism unrelated to batteries: The pump's rotor has two redundant motor coil shrouds. If one fails, an alarm goes off and your pump operates normally. The driveline also has redundant lines to the pump. Only aircrafts and perhaps space rockets have this kind of redundancy built in.
My Mom was told she needs one of these todays. I’m terrified for her. Happy as I think it will help but terrified just the same!
how is your mother doing? my dad was ordered one too !
@@clarissareyes9253 I pray it helps your Dad! I will say a prayer for him tonight.
My dad had an l-vad put in last year. It keeps the left side of his heart pumping because it was stopping because of congestive heart failure. He puts in battery’s using a control on the outside of his body. He is currently in the hospital awaiting surgery. At 6am tomorrow morning he will be having s heart transplant. I am so stressed, I’m terrified
How did it go? Was LVAD successful?
@@bilalraza4751 scary wen ppl don't reply. But then again. It wasn't the recipient posting. So...
@@hotlatino7220 Left Ventricular Assist Device is only for patients awaiting heart transplant. It does not serve the purpose of day to day routine life. I enquired about it from a cardiologist.
My dad has lvad yesterday but he didnt wake up after 24 hours is it normal?
Respekt Stay well:).
Beautifully explained .I m aheartfailure patientwith ICD .Recently I had to be hospitalised twice in the month of july'23 with complaint of shortness of breath.I just want to know what are probable complications and survibility rate and lastly probable cost in India(Bangalore).
Wow very helpful, it helped me alot I swear
I found a guy on tick tock who had one and I never knew this existed this is amazing
The topic of a lvad came up during a lecture, and my instructor said "yeah, there's a question about that on your test." Then skipped to the next slide, without going to any more detail.
99% of the people here are here because of Izzy Stevens
You know who you are
You are so right. Denny.
I cried watching the episode when Izzy discovered he'd died.
I thought I was the only one 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Who is that?
Late reply... I'm actually here because of LVAD Dad. Guess I'm the 1%... But I'm really curious about it! I'd love to know more. :)
Nah I'm here because my uncle died 3 days ago of congestive heart failure and I'm angry at the medical community and science that they weren't able to fix it.
In an age where tech companies make billions every year you would have thought one would have solved problems like heart failure by now, considering a large majority of people on earth are dieing by heart failure nowadays.
I have one saved my life ❤️
I really like the intro jingle lmao, very nice explication
Visually satisfying. Thank you the informative video!!
I just had a echocardiogram which mostly was good I'm 44 I already have congestive heart failure now my heart walls are starting to thicken and I talk to a cardiologist on zoom. I'm staying postive but a little nervous
Postoperation complications and precautionary measuresfor the patient .
0:27-0:55 why you didn't make heart failure WITH that I love your video
There have been cases were LVADs can effectively replace the heart. New developments in artificial hearts are moving away from the Jarvik era and more toward LVADs on steroids. A popular science article describes the Jarvik era as akin to achieving flight by duplicating a birds wing flap.
The body may have evolved for pulse beats, but it can do just fine with a continuous flow pump. Yes even the lymph system can do fine. Given these facts...it is possible to make hearts so cheap, you could buy them off the counter. As for what if it fails? That's why you could have an array of backup hearts. If one fails, the others can take over.
I am alive thanks to an LVAD. Buying one "off the shelf" is a wet dream of yours.
There are faaaaar faar far more parameters to be taken into account.
You don't just clip it on like a spare part for a car engine and leave.
The operation is a critical as a heart transplant which I am currently awaiting and have been for the past 3 years.
Nice to see people so positive about it, but don't think it's THAT simple a device !
Heart transplant is like working on a 12 cylinder engine Indy car WHILE it is racing. There is NO come in to the pits and we'll have that done for you Sir.
Wake up.
@@team3383 Not right now we don't have that, but one day we will.
How often from around the world that people needs this device, please? I really thank you for your time.
My dad past away from Hear failure. He had an Lvad for 18 months, the medicines and fluidpills caused him kidney failure. Im in so much pain :(
ScorpioQueen I'm so sorry for the loss of your father. Prayers of comfort to you. I wish heart failure and end stage kidney disease weren't so connected. This is a difficult journey. Again, prayers of comfort to you.
IndyChic Thank you. It so unfair. What horrible illness
Oh nooooo. You're scaring me!!
The intro is so Chilling. ;)
forgive my ignorance but could you please answer a question would it ever. be offered or seem a good option to a cardiologist to perform this operation/ chance of a better life on a 89 year old man with end stage?
I remember my former patients with LVAD 😊
This is the advancinG of medical technology it truly is gifts from mother nature.
In order to receive gifts obedience at certain momentos is the only way.
I just got tests back showing Dysfunction LV. Global hypokinesis Grade I. Tricuspid regurgitation and Mitral valve regurg. Will they treat me with meds? SOB upon exertion and real bad nausea throughout the day.
How long does it take for a patient to speak after surgery?
Just recently Ive found out that I had Left Ventricular Hypertrophy. What should i do
Take your medication,exercise as prescribed and vist your cardiologist regularly. The best you can do.
The LVAD is getting input from the left ventricle and nowadays continuous flow blood pumps are widely used for this devices. As the pump is getting pulsatile blood input from the left ventricle, then how can it deliver the continuous blood to the aorta?
LVAD has also complications.
I think it's because the pulsatile blood was pulsed by the heart. If the LVAD creates a continuous flow then no pulsation should happen. Am I right?
Also: Does the blood really pulse into the heart? The body's blood vessels (the lungs to be specific) are pretty soft. This may dampen the pulses to a continuous flow. May we see pulsing because at each beat of the heart we can see a high pressure in the heart which closes the valves, which causes the incoming blood to stop, hence pulsing.
Why Izzy why did you cut Denny's LVAD wire😣
To get him the heart he seriously needed
He'llo my baby is suffering from bi vantrical dysfunction she is on iv fluids and oral medication but her health is not improving & she can't eat anything & going weak day by day what should we do drs don't guide us properly
Good information and animation there! 😉
Nice animation, thanks!
hi
i m ayaz from pakistan
@@fahadayaz4551 Hello Friend :).
It can also be implanted due to cardiomyopathy
Thank u
I can feel the pain in my heart while watching this video 💀
* dies
Oouuu yeah is Amazing!
How might I get permission to embed this video in my academic presentation?
hi
i m ayaz from pakistan
Why did Izzy cut the LVAD???
Sir i don't want to miss my mother please help me doctor said heart rhythm is 31% and lv enlargement
No one:
Still no one:
*ok fine, I cut the lvad wire*
Amazing💋
hate the openning part (tripophobia)
Must be careful with our food intake
I'm hear reviewing some thing I need to have a better understanding of thing for work. Its hard to watch Hospital TV dramas when you work in hospital. Lol my woman always kicks me out🤣. I was one of those "hated izzy" people tho.
Dose it were out?
The video has a HeartMate 2 shown. Theoretically "maybe" but actually "no". The HeartMate 3 is an even stronger "NO" because the third version uses an electromagnetically levitated, and hydrodinamical bearing-enabled impeller. There is absolutely zero metal-to-metal contact, nothing ever wears out on that model.
Bruh the destination therapy 😅
How much is this machine and where there is
It's produced by Abott and isn't available for purchase. At least not for individuals.
Tak! :).
You kids and worrying about charging your phones
i had this in 2000 but it was lot bigger and round
You had you vad for 20years how did you feel after your procedure? If you don't mind me asking.
You may have had a HeartMate XVE. It's a pulsatile pump with air-pressure driven driveline. I guess it isn't a surprise for you but for everyone else it may be: You get a handpump with the HeartMate XVE and if (should ever happen) the system controller fails, you hook up the handpump and start pumping. (I mean the caregiver. Not the patient.)
Two generations since had passed. Now the HeartWare and the HeartMate 3 are current. (Actually the HeartWare is out of comission because 0.21% (or something like that) of patients reported problems with their pump.)
What happen when there is no battery power, n all the store don't have battery what do u do.
Espanol s
Take your charger and batteries (before you run out of charged batteries) to a hospital and plug in and charge your batteries. They will understand, I have first hand experience with this. Hospitals have backup power systems.
You can go to any emergency facility including hospitals, firehouses, police stations and plug into their generators. My grandfather had an lvad and he’s currently living with us. If anything were to happen to the power we have to take him to any of the facilities so that he does not run out of power.
I have no information about the HeartMate 2 but I have some about the HeartMate 3. These LVAD systems use Li-Ion battery packs, not AA alkaline batteries.
The LVAD (I mean the HeartMate 3) has three batteries. If one drains, an advisory alarm sounds and you replace the discharged battery. If the second one drains you replace that one too and you are good to go for another 12-17 hours. If you fail to exchange the first two batteries, the controller discharges them as far as it can, and when it happened, it will start using the built-in battery in the System controller. At the same time this battery is in use, the controller slows down the pump to a (by-doctor) pre defined minimum value to decrease power consumption. The doctors say the battery can provide 15 minutes of life. I disagree. The battery is a ~12Wh battery. An average pump uses about 6W of power normally so that's 2 hours of time, assuming the pump doesn't slow down. But the pump does slow down to decrease power consumption. To what amount? I have no idea.
Another safety mechanism unrelated to batteries: The pump's rotor has two redundant motor coil shrouds. If one fails, an alarm goes off and your pump operates normally. The driveline also has redundant lines to the pump. Only aircrafts and perhaps space rockets have this kind of redundancy built i
Here because of Denny Duquette
Someone come get her she’s cutting Denny’s wires.
izzie cut the lvad wires !!!
Who is here from learning engineering?
& her heart rate is only 14 per remaining
ömerden geldim...
So Lit
Denny
I like 3d things☺
Yeah, I am putting down my hamburger 🍔
🎉❤🎉
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Why don’t we all get this for both ventricles, then we wouldn’t have to worry about heart disease or anything.
SPCSHARKNADO 6170 there are a lot of complications that come with an lvad. You constantly have to be plugged into a battery. The transitional therapy takes a minimum of 4 months, and that’s if you have no complications. You can’t drive for a long time, you can’t play contact sports ever, you’re on a slew of expensive medications, you can’t shower more than once a week. You have a tube coming out of your body for the rest of you’re life. This is really only supposed to be transitional, unless your ineligible for a heart transplant. My grandfather has one and it’s the only thing keeping him alive. And it’s not going to keep him alive forever, it’s just extending his life a little longer. They’re not magic.
Neil Benjamin I absolutely agree! It’s the start of a new life for him and it’s 110% better than the situation he was in pre surgery. But my comment was addressing the thought that this is an easy solution to heart disease. This is not an easy procedure to go through and isn’t for everybody.
My dad is about to get this surgery
Cold hearted technology that causes incredible suffering to the recipient. Hippocratic oath...do no harm.
SPANISH PLEASE
izzie cut the lvad wires !!!
who is izzie?