#216: LVADs Demystified

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) is a mechanical pump that is surgically inserted to assist the left ventricle in pumping blood to the body. In this episode you’ll learn what an LVAD is, how it works and the basics for caring for patients with ventricular assist devices. A big thank-you to HCA Healthcare for sponsoring this episode. You can learn more about HCA’s robust Nurse Residency Program here. Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! LATTE Method Template - Download the free LATTE Method Template so you can streamline how you study and focus on what a nurse needs to know. Episode 57 - Tune in as I review right-sided vs left-sided heart failure. Demo video of obtaining a MAP using a Doppler. UCSF guide about living with a VAD. Cardiovascular article - For more articles on cardiovascular nursing, check out the Straight A Nursing library. Crucial Concepts Bootcamp - Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight A Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, hey there you, welcome back to the Straight A Nursing Podcast.
0:14.6	I'm Nurse Smow and as always thrilled to be talking with you today and what we're going
0:22.7	to be diving in today is another one of those subjects where I'm at work and I realize
0:28.8	I really need and want to know more about this topic.
0:32.3	So then I do a bunch of research, learn a ton and then share that with you.
0:37.8	So how this is taking form today is we're talking about LVADs, left ventricular assist
0:44.9	devices.
0:46.6	So before we get into that, I want to take a quick minute for a listener shout out to my
0:51.4	San fam and this one goes out to Jess who's a student in my Crucial Concepts Boot Camp
0:57.6	course and Jess says, Nurse Mow's material is thorough and easy to process.
1:03.6	Her teaching style is the perfect balance of encouragement and challenge.
1:07.8	This course is an excellent resource, one you can reference again and again.
1:12.4	I have.
1:14.2	Thank you Jess for that glowing review of Boot Camp and I love that you're able to go back
1:19.2	and look through it again and again, so many students will enroll before their classes
1:23.9	start and then basically do it as a refresher every time they have a minute or you know,
1:30.2	when they're on a break from school and I love that you've been able to do that.
1:34.1	So thanks again so much Jess and if you're wondering what she's talking about, Crucial
1:38.1	Concepts Boot Camp, it's my nursing school prep course.
1:41.4	I will put the information for that and the link in the episode notes.
1:46.3	Okay, so let's dive into our topic today which is left ventricular assist devices.
1:55.7	So a left ventricular assist device or as it's more commonly called LVAD is a mechanical
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