title: Nursing care for the patient with a left ventricular assist device.
authors.affiliation: At the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa., April Chmielinski is a clinical nurse specialist in the cardiac care unit and Brittany Koons is clinical nurse II in the heart and vascular intensive care unit.
authors.forename: April
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chmielinski
authors.forename: Brittany
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Koons
mesh_terms: D006333:Heart Failure / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing*; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D010343:Patient Admission; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications / Q000451:nursing*