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1. Outpatient Management for the VAD Patient

   Patients being supported with durable ventricular assist device (VAD) therapy require an interdisciplinary team guided by established clinical...

   Lori Edwards, Thomas Berg in A Guide to Mechanical Circulatory Support

   Chapter 2022
   

2. Nutrition for the Advanced Heart Failure and VAD Patient

   Nutrition screening is imperative for identifying the risk for malnutrition in patients with heart failure and being evaluated for ventricular assist...

   R. Dawn Lowery, Laura A. Coyle in A Guide to Mechanical Circulatory Support

   Chapter 2022
   

3. Psychosocial and Palliative Aspects of VAD Care

   Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have become the standard of care for end-stage heart failure refractory to medical therapy (Peura et al.,...

   Martha Abshire Saylor, Shunichi Nakagawa in A Guide to Mechanical Circulatory Support

   Chapter 2022
   

4. Mechanical Circulatory Support: Evolution and History

   Since the development of the first cardiopulmonary bypass machine in the early 1950s, mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices have undergone...

   Michael Sobieski, Joanne Chichetti in A Guide to Mechanical Circulatory Support

   Chapter 2022
   

5. The MCS Coordinator’s Role

   The role of the mechanical circulatory support (MCS) coordinator, also known as the ventricular assist device (VAD) coordinator, is a fluid position...

   Amanda Bolton, Amy Kamin, ... Tatiana Widmaier in Mechanical Circulatory Support

   Living reference work entry 2023
   

6. Regulatory Agencies Impacting Mechanical Circulatory Support Programs

   There has been a rapid development of mechanical circulatory support devices in the last two to three decades globally. National agencies have been...

   Peggy Blood, Roxanne Siemeck, Linda Staley in A Guide to Mechanical Circulatory Support

   Chapter 2022
   

7. Administrative Aspects of the Ventricular Assist Device Program

   Heart failure continues to be one of the highest ranked causes of mortality globally and with continued high rates of patients in the advanced end...

   Peggy Blood, Kathleen Davidson, Anne Luke in A Guide to Mechanical Circulatory Support

   Chapter 2022
   

8. Ventricular Assist Devices for the Pediatric Population

   Ventricular assist device (VAD) therapy in infants and children is less common than in adults and presents unique challenges due to the small body...

   Mary Mehegan, Jenna Murray in A Guide to Mechanical Circulatory Support

   Chapter 2022
   

9. Reimbursement in Ventricular Assist Device Implant and Care

   Successful MCS/VAD programs require a vast number of resources to manage complex patients. Program resources include equipment, hospital inpatient...

   Erin Davis, Michelle McCardell in A Guide to Mechanical Circulatory Support

   Chapter 2022
   

10. Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support

    Mechanical circulatory support (MCS), including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and ventricular assist device (VAD) implantation in...

    Anna Joong, Shahnawaz Amdani, ... Elizabeth D. Blume in Pediatric Cardiology

    Living reference work entry 2023
    

11. Transplant Preparation

    HSCT is a complex procedure, which involves a long and complicated pathway for the patient and the intervention of many health professionals. Within...

    Caroline Bompoint, Alberto Castagna, ... Ton Van Boxtel in The European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Textbook for Nurses

    Chapter Open access 2023
    

12. The MCS Team Concept: What You Need

    This chapter describes the essential elements mechanical circulatory support (MCS) teams need to build and maintain robust programs. Feasibility...

    Tonya Elliott in Mechanical Circulatory Support

    Living reference work entry 2023
    

13. Ethics: When to Turn Off the VAD

    VAD recipients are a challenging group of patients for whom end-of-life issues must be recognized and taken seriously. The involvement of palliative...

    Scott B. Grant, Peter Angelos in Difficult Decisions in Cardiothoracic Critical Care Surgery

    Chapter 2019
    

14. HeartMate 3

    Heart failure is the final common pathway of a large variety of disorders that result in profound myocardial dysfunction. The definitive therapy for...

    Miroslav P. Peev, Christopher T. Salerno in Mechanical Circulatory Support

    Living reference work entry 2023
    

15. Caring for Patient on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in the Pediatric Intensive Care Setting

    Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an advanced life-support therapy that utilizes a modified heart-lung machine to provide temporary...

    Angela Hui ** Kirk, Qian Wen Sng, ... Yoke Hwee Chan in Worldwide Successful Pediatric Nurse-Led Models of Care

    Chapter 2023
    

16. Designing a national pediatric critical care database: a Delphi consensus study

    Purpose

    We sought to describe the processes undertaken for the systematic selection and consensus determination of the common data elements for...

    Nadia Roumeliotis, Joanne Ramil, ... Patricia S. Fontela in Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie

    Article 22 May 2023
    

17. Surgical Insertion of a Ventricular Assist Device

    Implantable left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have been employed throughout the world in tens of thousands of patients to assist in failing...

    George Batsides, Anja Strehlow in A Guide to Mechanical Circulatory Support

    Chapter 2022
    

18. Pediatric Heart Transplantation

    Pediatric heart transplantation has grown tremendously since the first pediatric orthotopic heart transplant in 1967 and is performed routinely in...

    Alyssa Power, Anne I. Dipchand in Pediatric Cardiology

    Living reference work entry 2023
    

19. Visceral Adipose Tissue Depth in Early Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus - a Cohort Study

    Some studies have suggested that abdominal visceral adipose tissue depth (VAD) measured by ultrasound in early pregnancy, may predict the future...

    João Guilherme Alves, Alex Sandro Rolland Souza, ... Joel Geoffrey Ray in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 06 February 2020
    

20. Being a safe place: a qualitative study exploring perceptions as to how a rural community hospice could respond to enactment of voluntary assisted dying legislation

    Background

    There is a lack of research to guide the implementation of voluntary assisted dying legislation within a hospice setting. Furthermore,...

    Kirsten Auret, Terri Pikora, Kate Gersbach in BMC Palliative Care

    Article Open access 04 January 2022