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Case Scenario #2<br />

(Scrub Nurse)<br />

During a Centrimag LVAD insertion in the operating room<br />

the perfusionist hands the primed sterile lines to the field for<br />

connection to the catheter. The surgeon asks for inflow<br />

tubing and outflow tubing, respectively. The scrub nurse<br />

accidentally hands the lines up in reverse order. After the<br />

cessation of CPB and the VAD is started, the surgeon notices<br />

the heart acutely swell and the arterial pressure plummet. The<br />

surgeon asks the perfusionist to increase the VAD flow to off-<br />

load the ventricle. The condition worsens, forcing the re-<br />

initiation of CPB support.<br />

- Table lines reversed, flow path Ao-LV.

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