Diagnostic Tests and Procedures
Process of listening to the internal sounds of the body using a stethoscope.
What is auscultation?
The transfer of blood, or blood components from a donor or recipient.
What is a blood transfusion?
A agent used to prevent blood clot formation.
What is an anticoagulant?
Bloodwork
What is BW?
A genetic disease where the body makes sickle-shaped red blood cells instead of disc shaped RBC's
What is sickle cell anemia?
A record of the electrical activity of the heart.
What is an electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG)?
A procedure in which controlled electrical shocks are sent through the heart to restore normal heart rhythm in a patient in arrhythmia.
What is cardioversion?
Medications that help dissolve blood clots.
What is a thrombolytic?
Beats per minute
What is bpm?
A specific place in a blood vessel where it swells up abnormally like a balloon.
What is an aneurysm?
A series of tests that analyze the individual chemical elements of the blood.
What is blood chemistry profile?
The grafting of a living heart to a patient, from a donor who was clinically brain-dead but on life support.
What is a heart transplantation?
An agent that stimulates dilatation of blood vessels.
What is a vasodilator?
Deep vein thrombosis.
What is DVT?
An irregular heartbeat.
What is arrhythmia?
Separation of blood into its component parts using a special machine.
What is apheresis?
A surgical procedure that remove plaque from the lining of an artery.
What is an endarterectomy?
Medication that helps reduce excess water in the body.
What is a diuretic?
Heart rate
What is HR?
Condition where the atria beat more quickly than the ventricles.
What is a flutter?
A radiograph test that uses a contrast agent (dye) and a camera to take pictures of the blood flow in arteries or veins.
What is an angiogram?
A minimally invasive procedure for opening up blocked coronary arteries.
What is percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty?
A drug used to dilate arteries and reduce blood pressure.
What is a calcium channel blocker?
Myocardial infarction
What is MI?
Condition in which the mitral valve does not close properly, causing blood leakage into the left arium.
What is mitral valve prolapse?