punkrocknurse

punkrocknurse has 5 years experience and specializes in Cardiac ICU.

Latest Activity

1. Heartmate II Patients and CPR

   punkrocknurse replied to Anna187's topic in Cardiac

   A heartmate II patient should be treated like any other patient and on cardiac arrest cpr and acls should be initiated. It is possible that damage may be done to the vad, but the risk of not initiating acls the damage would be higher. On my unit, w...