Patient with an LVAD: EMS Scenario
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The case
He has an LVAD waiting for a transplant. Low flow alarm, lightheaded since vomiting all day.
- Patient
- Male, 58 years
- Setting
- Home
- Time
- 7 min
- For
- Paramedic
What you practice
- Introduction, consent and communication
- Hand hygiene and infection control
- Focused history: talk to the AI patient by voice or by typing
- Auscultation
- Treatment and procedures
- Case summary, diagnosis among the differentials, key test and patient teaching (scored questions)
11 checklist steps, scored from 0 to 100% by the AI at the end. The checklist answers stay inside the case: the AI patient answers what you ask and shows what you examine.
Programs and exam standards
Programs
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