Patients with a left ventricular assist device: the new chronic patient in cardiology

MeSH terms

• Cardiology / standards
• Cardiology / trends
• Caregivers
• Chronic Disease
• Female
• Heart Failure / diagnosis
• Heart Failure / mortality
• Heart Failure / surgery*
• Heart-Assist Devices / statistics & numerical data*
• Home Care Services / organization & administration
• Humans
• Israel
• Long-Term Care
• Male
• Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
• Monitoring, Physiologic / nursing*
• Needs Assessment
• Nurse's Role
• Severity of Illness Index
• Survival Analysis