VAD

British  

abbreviation

1. Voluntary Aid Detachment

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noun

1. a nurse serving in the Voluntary Aid Detachment

Example Sentences

The pump, a new type of ventricular assist device, or VAD, is surgically attached to the heart to augment its blood-pumping action in individuals with heart failure, allowing time to find a donor heart.

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Using a dataset of eight patients who had received a left VAD, the researchers found that those measurements correlated with the right heart state, therefore predicting how well the patients adapted to the device, validating the findings from the animal study.

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The researchers determined a metric that can assess this compliance by using just the VAD itself and a pulmonary artery catheter that is commonly implanted in these patients.

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To treat patients who are experiencing cardiogenic shock, a percutaneous VAD can be inserted through the arteries until it is positioned across the aortic valve, where it helps to pump blood out of the left ventricle.

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If doctors knew that the right heart would also need support, they could implant another VAD that helps the right ventricle.

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