Abstract
Despite the decreased infection rate with contemporary, continuous-flow ventricular assist devices (VADs), driveline infections remain problematic. Daily dressing changes have been postulated to be an important factor in minimizing the rate of infections but pose a substantial burden to patients and caregivers. A novel technique featuring dressing changes every third day has been described by the Utah Artificial Heart Program, Intermountain Healthcare (permission was obtained from Utah Artificial Heart Program), but the two methods have not been directly compared within a single program. A pilot project testing the Utah protocol was performed and we subsequently performed a retrospec-
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