So the VAD program at Vanderbilt was just initiated in March of 2010, so it is fairly new, but we just had an amazing experience with one special patient. I will post links to this amazing kid below. It is patients like this that truly defines the importance of Perfusion in the medical field.
This is our patients story, who was born with congestive heart failure. It shows a video of him with his Berlin Heart before we knew he was getting a transplant.
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/01/tennessee%E2%80%99s-first-berlin-heart-infant-receives-heart-transplant/
The transplant was a great success, and yes like all transplants it occurred in the wee hours of the morning!
He is doing well and I believe he will be going home in the next couple of days! We will all miss him in the hospital because he was such an amazing little boy!
Sonya Burrell
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