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- Title
Clinical approach to mechanical circulatory support in the transplant patient from the Pediatric Heart Transplant Society.
- Authors
Bearl, David W.; Jeewa, Aamir; Auerbach, Scott R.; Azeka, Estela; Phelps, Christina; Sacks, Loren D.; Rosenthal, David; Conway, Jennifer
- Abstract
The use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) for pediatric patients who have undergone heart transplant has grown rapidly in the past decade. This includes support in the immediate post‐transplant period and "rescue" therapy for patient later in their transplant course. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) remains a standard modality of support for intraoperative concerns and for acute decompensation in the immediate post‐transplant period. However, both pulsatile and continuous flow ventricular assist devices (VADs) have been used with increasing success in transplant patients for longer durations of support. Centers participating in the Pediatric Heart Transplant Society (PHTS) were queried to provide their internal protocols and rationale for mechanical circulatory support following heart transplant. These protocols coupled with evidence‐based literature were used to provide the following description of clinical approaches to MCS in the transplant patient highlighting areas of both broad consensus and significant practice variation.
- Subjects
ARTIFICIAL blood circulation; HEART transplantation; CHILD patients; HEART assist devices; EXTRACORPOREAL membrane oxygenation; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; KIDNEY transplantation
- Publication
Pediatric Transplantation, 2022, Vol 26, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
1397-3142
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/petr.14391