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The Inland Northwest Thoracic Organ Tranplant and Mechanical Heart Program provides extensive care for the most critical heart patients, those who suffer from end-stage heart or heart-lung disease. It is committed to serving patients through the entire process of preparing for and going home from heart and heart-lung transplants.

Our Team - Transplant surgeons, surgical assistants, transplant coordinators, mechanical heart engineers, and research nurses provide the clinical expertise while a financial counselor, social worker, dietitian, psychologist, pulmonologist, and data coordinator help the patient with other transplant factors. The team's goal is that all patients can return to healthy, active lives as soon as possible.

Services - Patients referred to the Program for possible transplants receive extensive physical exams as well as financial, psychological, and social evaluations before beginning the transplant process. If a patient is found eligible to have a heart transplant, the Program provides all of the following:

• transplant, posttransplant follow-up
• first-line emergent care and long-range plan of care
• collaboration with patient's healthcare network
• mechanical assist options to help until a heart is available
• outpatient monitoring and clinic support

UNIQUE PROGRAMS

PHADE - (THIS STUDY IS CURRENTLY ON HOLD) A one-of-a-kind national study conducted by the Inland Northwest Thoracic Organ Transplant Program, Sacred Heart Medical, The Heart Institute of Spokane, and Washington State University. PHADE allows a patient to receive a permanent mechanical heart (called a pneumatic HeartMate left ventricular assist device) when waiting for transplant is not an option.

MOBI - A "mobile intensive care unit" on wheels that is easily transported by fixed wing aircraft or ambulance. MOBI is equipped with a balloon pump, centrifugal blood pump (short term heart pump), infusion pump (IVs), pacemaker, defibrillator, monitor, oxygen, ventilator all compactly stowed into an area below a stretcher which conveys the patient. The first MOBI "rescue" occurred in the Spring of 1999 when a patient from Salem, Oregon was brought to Sacred Heart Medical Center.

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