Diagnostic Procedures and Tests
Common diagnostic procedures for evaluating pericardial and intracardiac masses.
What are CT and MRI Scans
What is the first thing to have available?
What is the cardiac crash cart
How many chambers does the heart have?
What is 4
The most common type of heart disease
atherosclerosis
What procedure is performed to evaluate nodal involvement or masses?
What is Medianstinoscopy
Electrocardiography, echocardiography and cardiac catheterization are useful diagnostic procedures for evaluating?
What is Cardiac disease
What is the name of the self retaining rib retractor?
What is Finochietto
What does the upper chambers of the heart do?
What is receive blood from the veins of the body
Myocardial Infarction
What is a Heart Attack
The chief indication for (this surgery) is bronchogenic carcinoma
What is Pneumonectomy
What is the diagnostic procedure for diagnosing lesions?
What is Bronchoscopy
What is the name of the rib shears?
What is Bethune
What do the lower chambers do?
What is pump blood into arteries leading away from the heart
What vein is harvested during a CABG
What is Saphenous, Intermammary, Cephalic or Radial
This is performed for a variety of reasons, including COPD, emphysema cystic fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension
What is a Double Lung Transplant
How is Valvular disease detected?
What are X-Rays
What is the name of the needle holder most commonly used in Cardiac and Vascular Surgical procedures?
What is Castroviejo
What is Cardiac Conduction?
What is the system that coordinates events of the cardiac cycle. Diastole/Systole
What is a IABP?
What is Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (for pts waiting for transplantation or that cannot be weaned from CPB)
If blood or pus from a chest injury is not properly drained from the pleural cavity, it coagulates and forms a fibrin layer over the visceral and parietal pleura that interferes with the expansion of the lung.
What is Empyema
How can intracoronary calcification, asymptomatic pericardial cysts, and cardiac tumors be detected?
What is Ultrasound and confirmed coronary angiography
What are the names of the most common aorta clamps?
What is DeBakey and Satinsky
Where do the right and left coronary arteries originate from?
What is the ascending Aorta
Disease that has led to stenosis of the AV valves of the heart, causing dysfunction and disruption of blood flow
What is Mitral/Aortic Valve replacement
VATS
Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery