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ReviewJournal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs2024

Caregivers of patients with long-term implantable ventricular assist device: a republication of the article published in the Japanese Journal of Artificial Organs.

Noriko Kikuchi

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Review in Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. The foremost and greatest barrier to end-stage heart failure treatment: the impact of caregiver shortage.Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Noriko KikuchiDepartment of Cardiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 1628666, Japan. kikuchi.noriko_2@twmu.ac.jp.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Implantable ventricular assist device (VAD) has enabled patients with severe heart failure to be discharged from the hospital and to continue their care at home. The presence of caregivers is essential to maintain home care of patients with VAD. The caregivers are mainly the family members who live with the patient with VAD. The caregivers need to be trained (1) VAD device management, (2) disinfection of driveline skin punctures, (3) medication management, and (4) responding to sudden changes. The caregivers' lifestyle is also forced to change. In this article, we discuss the role of caregivers in the VAD era, where long-term support beyond 5 years is now possible. This review was created based on a translation of the Japanese review written in the Japanese Journal of Artificial Organs in 2023 (Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 81-84), with some modifications.

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CaregiversHeart-Assist DevicesHeart FailureHumansJapanCaregiversQuality of lifeVentricular assist device

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PMID38780670

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