Carry oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body..
What are arteries?
100
This term means in it's natural position or normal place
What is In situ?
100
Arteries branch into arterioles which transition into these
What are capillaries?
100
During this procedure a contrast medium is used to visualize the artery under Xray or CT scan to obtain a diagnosis
What is an Angiography?
100
These are small pieces of felt used with vascular suture to prevent the suture from cutting through delicate tissue
What is a pledget?
200
These arteries carry deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs
What are pulmonary arteries?
200
This is a moving substance in the vascular system, it may be composed of air, fat, or plaque
What is an Embolus?
200
This vessel carries blood back to the heart from peripheral tissues
what is a vein?
200
This type of ultrasound is used in both coronary and peripheral vascular surgery, it uses a rotating flexible 360-degree catheter with transducer that is inserted through the lumen of the vessel, it produces an image to determine thickness of the structure and diagnose atherosclerotic plaque
What is an intravascular ultrasound?
200
This is the blade the surgeon will ask for when performing an arteriotomy
What is an 11 blade
300
This inner structure of the vessel contain smooth muscle bounded by connective tissue
What is the tunica media?
300
This is a procedural process that shunts blood through a complex set of filters; mostly to treat end stage renal disease, and also in some cases poisoning
What is hemodialysis?
300
In these vessels blood is not pumped, but rather milked toward the heart by contraction of skeletal muscle
what is a vein?
300
Before this procedure the path of these superficial vessels are marked on the legs. A duplex ultrasound is used preoperatively to diagnose torturous or dilated vessels that need to be removed. this is also done to improve cosmetic appearance.
What is varicose vein stripping?
300
These are common topical hemostatic agents that should be available to the surgeon to choose from (if needed) after the anastomosis of a graft or vessel is performed
What are Gelfoam, Thrombin, Surgicel, or Avitene?
400
This is the outer layer of the blood vessel which provides structural strength and is composed of connective tissue
What is the tunica externa (adventitia)?
400
The most common form of arteriosclerosis, which causes plaque to form on the inner surface of an artery
What is atherosclerosis?
400
This is a malfunction in the one way valves of the vessel, it results in the pooling of blood which may cause them to dilate abnormally
What is Venous stasis?
400
This procedure is done If a patient has restricted arterial blood flow to the brain that may be a result of a partial obstruction in the carotid artery
What is a carotid endarterectomy?
400
These are strands of silastic material used to retract delicate vessels during vascular procedures
What a vessel loops?
500
This vessel of the body is large and is divided into inferior and superior segments, it communicates to the heart through the right atrium
What is the Vena Cava?
500
This is a disease that causes the loss of elasticity in the arterial wall due to thickening and hardening
What is Arteriosclerosis?
500
In this circulatory system oxygenated blood from the left ventricle is pumped through the ascending aorta to the rest of the body
What is systemic circulation?
500
The goal of this procedure would be to implant a graft extending from the aorta to the iliac arteries to restore circulation to the lower extremities
What is the AAA procedure?
500
This device is used to burrow through superficial tissue layers in order to insert a graft