Haider Warraich
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683 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Oct 2020
last heard Dec 2021
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One of the things that can happen as soon as you stop an LVAD is someone's circulation may stop.
Many patients may have their aortic valve over-sewn, so they get no blood flow across the aortic valve.
They're entirely dependent on their LVAD.
So if you are going to give them medicines that are going to keep them comfortable, such as opioids or benzodiazepines, you better give that before you stop the LVAD.
Because otherwise, they might not even get circulated.
The other thing is know your device.
And the reason I say this is because the more common types of pumps, the HeartMate pumps, if you try to, as you can imagine, these devices have been made to be very hard to stop because you don't want this to just be, that be done by accident.
But the HeartMate device will have this very loud countdown.
It's like a blaring siren when you stop these devices.
Can
imagine?
Can you imagine doing this for a patient in a really, really tough spot in the hospital, family, loved ones around, and you have this?
Can you turn that off?
No.
So no, I tried my very best.
And so this one time what we had to do is we found a perfusion and we just took the batteries out.
So we just opened the module and we didn't go through the usual.
The other device, which is a hardware, which is now less commonly used, actually has this really, really humane option.
And what it is, it's like a small red plug.
And you can essentially put it in the device in one of the adapters and it completely silences the device.
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