Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)
A Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) is a mechanical pump used to provide adequate cardiac output when heart failure is resistant to medical therapy
Category Equipment
Transcutaneous Pacing
Transcutaneous Pacing: temporary cardiac pacing using pads or paddles applied externally to the chest
Tiger tube
Tiger tube: Self advancing nasojejunal tube; short-term enteric feeding into the jejunum (<30 days); enteric administration of medications
Thromboembolic deterrent (TED) stockings
Thromboembolic deterrent (TED) stockings; compression stockings; DVT prophylaxis in immobile patients
Testing Gas Supply and Suction
Testing Gas Supply and Suction
Temporary Transvenous Cardiac Pacing
Temporary Transvenous Cardiac Pacing: emergency pacing via an intravenous device; life-threatening or unstable bradyarrhythmia
Temporary Epicardial Cardiac Pacing
Epicardial Cardiac Pacing: the usual means of cardiac pacing following cardiac surgery
Swivel connector
Swivel connector: allow ventilation without gas leak during invasive bronchial procedures (e.g. fibreoptic bronchoscopy, suctioning with a catheter); provide improved flexibility, stability and comfort to the ventilation circuit
Rapid Infusion Catheter (RIC Line)
Rapid Infusion Catheter (RIC Line)
Rotameter (flow meter)
Rotameters are devices that enable flow to be measured using a float that sits on a stream of gas within a glass tube and rises proportional to gas flow.
Regulator for Medical Suction Outlet
Regulator for Medical Suction Outlet
Pressure Monitoring Definitions
Pressure Monitoring Definitions: Zeroing; Levelling and Calibration