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| What must a patient always do when having a cardiac cath done? |
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| What is the left heart cath access obtained from? |
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| Femoral Artery or Brachial Artery |
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| What is the best catheter for the left side? |
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| What is the gold standard with cardiac cath? |
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| Which method for determining cardiac output uses a cold saline injection? |
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| determines the dye concentration injected vs. dye concentration at end circulation |
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| right heart cardiac output is compared to left heart cardiac output |
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| What are the pressures in the LV and RV? |
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| On the Atrial Pressure Curve, what does the "a", "v", "y" wave represent? |
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a = atria are acting as a pump
v = atria are acting as a resevoir
y = atria are acting as a conduit |
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| Where is the Sone's Technique used? |
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| Where is the Judkin's Technique used? |
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| What technique is used as a percutaneous approach in cardiac cath? |
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| What is the "rotorooter" method called when shaving plaque? |
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| What must the EF be below in order to not have a catheterization? |
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| In right heart catheterizations, what is used and where? |
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| through a vein using a Swan Ganz catheter |
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| What is it called when the carotid is directly punctured? |
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| What does D.S.A. stand for? |
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| digital subtraction angiography |
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| What are you looking for with a Aortography? |
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1)Aortic Dissection
2)Coarctation of the Aorta
3)Stenosis of the Aorta
4)Aneurysms |
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What exam is it called when looking for blood clots (DVT)? |
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| What is the gold standard for detecting blood clots in the lungs or PE? |
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| What must a patient have before a pulmonary angiography? |
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| What is it called when a patient has radio frequency ablation performed for their arrhythmias? |
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| What is it called when a small sample of myocardial tissue is collected? |
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