What are Ventricular Assist Devices? Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) are mechanical heart pumps. 1 They use electrical and mechanical technology to support cardiac functioning by helping blood to ...

a blood pump a computer, called a controller, and a power supply that remains outside of the body. This equipment connects to the LVAD via a series of wires. The series of wires is called a driveline.

A ventricular assist device (VAD) helps pump blood from your heart to the rest of your body. It’s used when your heart is not able to pump enough blood on its own. The device consists of a pump, tubes ...

Ventricular assist devices are mechanical pumps that take over the function of the damaged ventricle in order to re-establish normal hemodynamics and end-organ blood flow. In addition, VADs unload the ...

To review the specific management of every available VAD, each with their own control device, alarm variables and usage instructions, is beyond the scope of this review. However, the general ...