Provides the most up to date information on every aspect of clinical care relating to patients with advanced heart failure who require mechanical circulatory support

Summarizes the national and international outcomes data for using MCS as a bridge to transplant and destination therapy

Jeffrey A. Morgan, MD

Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation

Surgical Director, Advanced Heart Failure Center

CHI Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center

Texas Heart Institute

6770 Bertner Avenue, Suite C-355N

Houston, TX 77030

Andrew Civitello, MD

Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program

Co-Director, Advanced Heart Failure Center

CHI Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center

Texas Heart Institute

6620 Main Street, Suite 1225

Houston, TX 77030

O.H. Frazier, MD

Chief, Center for Cardiac Support

CHI Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center

Texas Heart Institute

PO Box 20345, MC 2-114A

Houston, TX 77225

History of Mechanical Circulatory Support.- Who is an Appropriate Candidate for Long-Term MCS: The Art of Patient Selection.- Optimization of Right Ventricular Function Pre-Operatively for LVAD Implantation.- Bridge-to-Bridge Strategies with IABP, Impella, and Tandem Heart.- LVAD Surgical Implant Technique: Extra-Peritoneal Approach.- LVAD Surgical Implant Technique: Infra-Diaphragmatic Approach.- Intraoperative Anesthesia Management.- Perioperative Management of LVAD Patients.- Perioperative Optimization of a Patient's Fluid Status.- Chronic Management of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices.- Surveillance Echocardiography for LVAD Patients.- Diagnosis of Device Thrombosis.- Device Exchange: THI Technique Involving a Left Subcostal Approach.- Mechanical Circulatory Support to Bridge to a Long-term Continuous-flow Left Ventricular Assist Device as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation.- Outcomes Using LVADs