VAD Coordinator Learning Pathway

VAD Learning Pathway

VAD Coordinator Learning Pathway

The VAD Coordinator Pathway is designed to support new VAD Coordinators and to help experienced VAD Coordinators develop their approach using various educational resource formats developed by Abbott’s Professional Education team.

We offer a multi-phased learning pathway, in order to help you access the resources you need when you need them.

Phase 1 Learning Pathway
Phase 2 Learning Pathway
Advanced Learning Pathway

Phase 1 Learning Pathway Objectives

Discuss the strategies for patient management post HeartMate 3™ LVAS implant as well as considerations during implant.
Understand the important advancements in mechanical circulatory support.
Identify HeartMate 3 LVAS resources and access as needed.

Webinars

Updates in Advanced Heart Failure

This video provides recent updates in heart failure care and guidance on when to consider patients for advanced heart failure therapies.

Online Resources

Phase 2 Learning Pathway Objectives

Understand the findings of the MOMENTUM 3 clinical trial and other current, relevant publications regarding the HeartMate 3 LVAS.
Demonstrate a general understanding of HeartMate 3 LVAS pump parameters and when to make appropriate parameter changes.
Understand power curves, pump power, pump flow and the operating differences between the HeartMate II and HeartMate 3 LVAS.

Webinars

LVAD Physiology and Management - Understanding PI and Other Pump Parameters

Speaker Dr. Jonathan Grinstein discusses advanced principles of pump parameters for HeartMate 3 LVAS, including potential clinical causes of abnormal parameters.

Setting the Standard in LVAD Therapy with MOMENTUM 3 Long-term Clinical Evidence

Dr. Daniel Goldstein discusses the HeartMate 3 LVAS, the long-term clinical outcomes from the MOMENTUM 3 Trial and the coming landscape of LVAD therapy.

HeartMate 3 LVAS: Pump Parameters Overview

This card is an overview designed to help healthcare professionals educate their patients about pump parameters.

Publications and Presentations from the MOMENTUM 3 Trial

Advanced Learning Pathways

Abbott’s Professional Education Team offers additional opportunities to
continue VAD education.

Additional Advanced Webinars

Utilizing Mechanical Circulatory Support in Patients with a Smaller Body Habitus

This webinar features Ezequiel Molina, MD, Yoshifumi Naka, MD, and David Morales, MD, discussing surgical techniques and outcomes with the HeartMate 3 LVAD in small BSA patients.

Thoracotomy Implant Considerations for the HeartMate 3 LVAS

In this webinar, Igor Gozev, MD, Akinobu Otah, MD, and Robert Kormos, MD, discuss surgical techniques for implanting the HeartMate 3 LVAD via lateral thoracotomy.

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VAD Coordinator Learning Pathway