Diagnostic Tests & Procedures
d by the blood on the wall of an artery or vein. Blood pressure is measured using a sphygmomanometer
What is blood pressure (BP)?
The transfer of blood, or blood components such as red blood cells, from a donor to a recipient
What is a blood transfusion?
Medications that help dissolve blood clots.
What is a thrombolytic?
cardiovascular
What is CV?
Disorder marked by excessive destruction of RBCs.
what is hemolytic anemia?
Passage of a tiny plastic tube into the heart through a blood vessel, usually through the femoral artery in the leg; used to diagnose heart diseases or abnormalities
What is cardiac catheterization?
The replacement of diseased bone-marrow cells in a patient with healthy bone-marrow cells from a donor
What is a bone marrow transplant?
Medication that helps reduce excess water in the body.
What is a diuretic?
intravenous
What is IV?
Localized, balloon-like dilation of a blood vessel, usually an artery
What is an aneurysm?
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 angiogram?
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?
Medication used to counteract high blood pressure.
What's an antihypertensive?
do not resuscitate
What is DNR?
Disorder in which the bone marrow does not produce enough new red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), and platelets.
What is aplastic anemia?
Process of listening to the internal sounds of the body using a stethoscope
What is auscultation?
A shunt (passageway), established surgically, that allows blood to travel from the aorta to a branch of the coronary artery at a point beyond an obstruction
What is a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)?
Medication used to prevent or alleviate angina (spasmodic chest pain).
What's an antianginal?
hematocrit (the proportion of the volume of blood that contains RBCs)
What is HCT, Hct?
Disorder in which the body does not manufacture enough RBCs due to a vitamin B12 deficiency.
What is pernicious anemia?
Procedure in which blood flow and blood pressure are measured using ultrasound technology (high-frequency sound waves). The sound waves are “bounced” off red blood cells as they circulate through the blood vessels. Doppler sonography differs from standard ultrasound imaging procedures in that the latter cannot measure blood flow. Also called Doppler ultrasound.
What is Doppler sonography, Doppler ultrasound?
Procedure used to stop atrial or ventricular fibrillation (an irregular and usually rapid heartbeat) by means of drugs or an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) surgically placed in the chest or abdomen
What is defibrillation?
Medication that keeps the body from making angiotensin II, a hormone that causes blood vessels to constrict (narrow). Because ACE inhibitors prevent blood-vessel constriction, they help treat hypertension (high blood pressure).
What is an angiotensin-converting (ACE) inhibitor?
implantable cardioverter defibrillator
What is ICD?
Genetic disease in which the body manufactures red blood cells that are shaped like a sickle, or crescent, rather than the normal disk shape. Sickle-shaped RBCs disrupt blood flow in the blood vessels
What is sickle-cell anemia?