Move out to the country before you get a heart attack,,,ack,,ack!
That's the solution!
Shot through the heart and you're to blame,
You give love a bad name
100
It is the action to follow if the patient is experiencing ventricular fibrillation.
What is defibrillation?
100
It is the most common incision for surgical procedures of the heart.
What is median sternotomy?
100
This is added to saline for irrigation during cardiac procedures.
What is heparin?
100
Forty to sixty beats per minute.
What is bradycardia?
100
It's the tube that collects bronchial washings.
What is a Lukens tube?
200
Passage of a sterile catheter into the heart via brachial or femoral artery for image intensification.
What is cardiac cauterization?
200
The most common acquired valvular lesion.
What is mitral stenosis?
200
Heparin sodium antagonist.
What is Protamine Sulfate?
200
Involuntary muscle contraction.
What is fibrillation?
200
It aids in collection of drainage from the pleural space; Maintains a seal to prevent air from entering the pleural cavity, and provides suction control by a water level.
What is a PleuroVac (disposable chest tube drainage system)?
300
It is employed in cardiac surgery to reduce myocardial oxygen demand.
What is hypothermia?
300
The only arteries in the body that carry deoxygenated blood to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
300
Used intraoperatively for its antispasmodic effect on smooth muscle of vessel walls.
What is papavarine hydrochloride?
300
The cardiac phase where the ventricles contract.
What is systole?
300
A reduction of negative pressure on one side of the thoracic cavity that causes the negative pressure on the normal side to pull in an effort to equalize pressure.
What is a mediastinal shift?
400
Conservative treatment of occlusive disease involving recannulization to restore the lumen of the vessel.
What is Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA)?
400
The vessels harvested for a coronary artery bypass.
What are the saphenous vein, the radial artery, or the internal mammary artery?
400
Intraoperative test determines the need for reversal or addition of heparin.
What is Activated Clotting Time (ACT)?
400
The relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle.
What is diastole?
400
Compression of the subclavian vessels and thee brachial plexis usually caused by the first rib.
What is Thoracic Outlet Syndrome?
500
The technique used on the patient who can't be weaned from Cardiopulmonary bypass.
What is an Intraaortic Pressure Balloon or Ventricular Assist Device?
500
It is used to inflate the dilating balloon in balloon angioplasty.
What is a dilute solution of contrast media?
500
It is used parenterally to expand blood plasma volume.
What is Dextran?
500
A device thjat produces electrical impulses that stimulate the heart muscle.
What is a pacemaker?
500
Surgical removal of fibrinous deposits on the visceral and parietal pleura.