Action Learning Network

Check out the latest ACTION OPS Guidelines! 🫀

These VAD Recovery Guides feature information on Weaning & Explant Phases, Echocardiograms, and the Catheterization Labs. They also include a VAD RAMP Hemodynamics (fill in) chart for both CF VADs & Berlin Heart.

Download these new bedside tools from MyACTIONEducation.org!

Pride, gratitude & admiration - that’s how ACTION feels about the nurses across our network this and every day. 💙

Quite honestly, we’d be lost without you. Thank you for all that you do - we’re so grateful for you.

A recent ACTION study, published in ASAIO Journal, examined early anticoagulation strategies in children and young adults supported with the HeartMate 3 ventricular assist device.

Using data from the ACTION VAD registry, investigators analyzed outcomes from 234 patients across the network who received either bivalirudin or unfractionated heparin after implantation. The study found similar rates of early stroke, bleeding, and 1‑year survival between groups, with excellent outcomes overall.

These findings show there is more than one safe approach to early anticoagulation after HeartMate 3 implantation - and underscore the importance of multicenter, real‑world data to guide care for pediatric patients with advanced heart failure.

Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3PvcXV6!