Heart Failure and the Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)

Similar to Fire Ground Relay Pumping
Players involved
  • Hydrant
  • Engine # 1
  • Engine #2
Hydrant is the Left Ventricle
  • Primary source for blood (blood = water)

Engine #1
  • Tube attached to left ventricle
  • Pumps blood within ventricle to Engine #2

Engine #2
  • Tube within aorta
  • Receives blood at a higher pressure to pump throughout the body (back into the left ventricle)