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Cardiovascular collapse can occur from either mechanical pump failure or electrical failure. As technology continues to produce devices and procedures to support these patients, the EMS clinician is likely to encounter patients reliant on this technology. Many of these patients are managed by critical care teams during interfacility transports. There are also many patients who are dependent on these cardiac devices living outside the hospital who are encountered by prehospital EMS practitioners. Familiarity with these devices and how to troubleshoot them is paramount to appropriate care of these technology‐dependent patients by the EMS system. There are also procedures that the EMS physician should be knowledgeable about that can be used to stabilize patients suffering from cardiovascular collapse in the prehospital setting.