• Critical care nurse · Feb 2020

    Nursing Management of Patients Requiring Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices.

    • Samantha R Asber, Kenneth P Shanahan, Leslie Lussier, Dorothy Didomenico, Marissa Davis, Jennifer Eaton, Michele Esposito, and Navin K Kapur.
    • Samantha R. Asber is Nurse Manager, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
    • Crit Care Nurse. 2020 Feb 1; 40 (1): e1-e11.

    TopicThe growing use of acute mechanical circulatory support devices to provide hemodynamic support that has accompanied the increasing prevalence of heart failure and cardiogenic shock, despite significant improvement in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction.Clinical RelevanceThe critical care nurse plays a crucial role in managing patients receiving acute mechanical circulatory support devices and monitoring for potential complications.PurposeTo review the anatomical placement and mechanics of each type of device so that nurses can anticipate patients' hemodynamic responses and avoid complications whenever possible, thereby improving patients' clinical outcomes.Content CoveredNursing considerations regarding the intra-aortic balloon pump, the TandemHeart, the Impella, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.©2020 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

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