Diagnostic Tests & Procedures
The pressure exerted by the blood on the wall of an artery or vein. Blood pressure is measured using a sphygmomanometer (SFIG-moh-muh-NAH-muh-tur).
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 blood transfusion?
Medication used to prevent or alleviate angina (spasmodic chest pain).
What is antianginal?
BP
What is blood pressure?
Disorder involving a deficiency of red blood cells or hemoglobin
What is anemia?
A machine that continuously records cardiac rhythms often worn for 24–48 hours to assist with diagnosing an arrhythmia condition.
What is a Holter monitor?
The replacement of diseased bone-marrow cells in a patient with healthy bone-marrow cells from a donor?
What is a bone marrow transplant?
An agent used to alleviate or prevent cardiac arrhythmia.
What is an antiarrhythmic?
BW
What is bloodwork?
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?
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 a angiogram
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 reduce lipid concentrations in the blood serum (blood plasma without clotting factors).
What is hypolipidemic?
DNR
What is do not resuscitate?
Disorder marked by excessive destruction of RBCs.
What is hemolytic anemia?
A noninvasive diagnostic method that uses ultrasound to visualize internal cardiac structures.
what is a echocardiogram/multigated acquisition (MUGA) scan
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?
Medications that help dissolve blood clots.
What is thrombolytic?
HTN
What is hypertension?
Condition in which the body does not have enough red blood cells due to lack of iron, which is a mineral essential for hemoglobin production.
What is iron-deficient anemia?
Noninvasive procedure in which a radioactive substance called a tracer is injected into a patient to produce images of the left or right ventricle of the heart. The test measures the volume of blood pumped by the ventricle(s).
What is nuclear ventriculography?
Medication used to counteract high blood pressure.
What is antihypertensive?
An agent that stimulates dilatation (dilation or widening) of blood vessels.
What is vasodilator?
CABG
What is coronary artery bypass graft?
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?