Left Ventricular Assist Device Multialarm Emergency: A High-Fidelity Simulation Case for Emergency Medicine Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

As left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) become more prevalent in the treatment of patients with end-stage heart failure, emergency physicians must become experts in the management and resuscitation of patients with LVADs. As with other high-acuity, low-occurrence scenarios, managing the unstable LVAD patient makes for an ideal topic for simulation-based resident education.

Methods

By incorporating a high-fidelity HeartMate 3 LVAD task trainer, our program developed and executed a novel LVAD simulation activity for our emergency medicine resident physicians. In the scenario, a 65-year-old male with recent LVAD placement arrived at a community hospital with undifferentiated hypotension. Various device alarms activated during the scenario and required interventi

SUBMITTER: Barnicle R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8096883 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature