VAD Implant Guideline Proposal Dubbed “One Year/One Block” Strategy
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Heart failure patients should be considered for ventricular assist device (VAD) implants when they can no longer walk at least one block or they have less than a year of life expectancy, according to Lynne Warner Stevenson, M.D., a cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston