VAD
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“VAD.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/VAD. Accessed 8 Apr. 2021.
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VAD
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Medical Definition of VAD
: ventricular assist device
Known technically as VADs, or ventricular assist devices, these implants can sometimes rescue even the most desperate patients.— Geoffrey Cowley et al., Newsweek, 25 June 2001
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The first known use of VAD was in 1982
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