Diagnostic Tests and Procedures
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?
The transfer of blood, or blood components such as red blood cells, from a donor to a recipient.
What is a blood transfusion?
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 inhibitor?
AV
What is an atrioventricular?
Disorder involving a deficiency of red blood cells or hemoglobin.
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 a cardiac catheterization?
Procedure in which controlled electrical shocks are sent through the heart to restore normal cardiac rhythm in a patient with arrhythmia.
What is a cardioversion?
Medication used to counteract high blood pressure.
What is an antihypertensive?
BW
What is a blood work?
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 sick-cell anemia?
A record of the electrical activity of the heart.
What is a electrocardiogram?
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?
A drug used to dilate (widen) arteries and reduce blood pressure, making it easier for the heart to pump blood.
What is a calcium channel blocker?
DNR
What is do not resuscitate?
Localized, balloon-like dilation of a blood vessel, usually an artery.
What is an aneurysm?
A machine that continuously records cardiac rhythms.
What is a heart monitor?
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 a defibrillation?
Medications that help dissolve blood clots.
What is a thrombolytic?
HTN
What is hypertension?
Genetic disorder in which the body produces less hemoglobin than normal.
What is thalassemia?
Process of listening to the internal sounds of the body using a stethoscope.
What is a auscultation?
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 (dilation or widening) of blood vessels.
What is a vasodilator?
RRR
What is regular rate and rhythm?
Disorder in which the body does not manufacture enough RBCs due to a vitamin B12 deficiency.
What is a pernicious anemia?