"We Love Andrea" was created to update Andrea's friends as she went through a difficult journey. After her second heart transplant when her pulse began to speed up she was given a pacemaker, then a Heart Mate II or LVAD. She was in the Stollery Children's Hospital, then the Mazankowski heart unit in Edmonton, Alberta for 7 months. However, she peacefully died on May 11, 2011 when the rest of her heart and other organs could handle the strain no longer. If you come to this blog, pray for her family and friends, remember to tell your friends you love them, then sign your organ donor card.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Heart Mate II

I'm attaching some info on the Heart Mate II that Andrea is supposed to be getting soon...
http://www.thoratec.com/medical-professionals/vad-product-information/heartmate-ll-lvad.aspx
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1995046/
Basically its a pump that assists the heart, two tubes connected to the heart at two different spots. The pump is internal but the controller is external, worn around the waist. A tube comes out near the belly button to this controller. There are two batteries that can be worn over the shoulders or put in a purse etc. The idea is that this will help her become healthy enough to handle a transplant. It will be 3-6 months before they will even put her on the list and then its a matter of time, and no one knows how long, until she gets a heart.
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