Anyone travel with an LVAD heart pump?

ArchHoagland wrote:
A friend of mine was on a waiting list for a kidney. After about four years he got a call at midnight from the hospital where they were going to do the transplant and they told him he had to be at the hospital in four hours.

He lived in Fresno and the hospital is in San Francisco. If you don't show up they give the kidney to someone else so time is of the essence.

He got there right at 4am and got the kidney. Everything worked out great. No more dialysis!!

So my question to you is...how fast do you have to get to the hospital and how far away are you planning on traveling?

Sorry if I misled anyone, as my original post question was purely technical. We are in one of the top rated transplant systems in the country and we have been through months of counseling, training, and decision making.

As I've already stated, we have tons of local parks within the response time area, some we have never been to. There is also the very personal decision she will have to make as to whether some of the items on her bucket list out weight the risk of missing that call. The transplant center has a system to go on temporary suspension when traveling outside of the response zone. Many potential recipients continue on with the Europe trip, or some snowbirders even register for tansplant in both habitat regions.

Regardless - that wasn't where I was going with this. I am merely the facilitator to a very important lady in my life and if she wants to see the west coast or the lake down the street, I want to make it happen.