Knobology
This term means the opposite side of the body.
What is contralateral
What veins drain into the left atrium?
What are the pulmonary veins?
This fetal shunt connects the aorta to the pulmonary artery.
What is the ductus arteriosus?
The percentage of blood pumped out of the heart's LV with each heartbeat is.
What is ejection fraction?
You put color on the Apical 4 Chamber view. In a normal heart what color would you expect to show on the mitral valve?
What is red color?
This machine setting will allow you to change the color of the image from gray to blue.
What is B color.
What is the most posterior chamber of the heart?
What is the left atrium.
The endocardial cushions will separate into which two valves?
Mitral and Tricuspid
A narrowing or constriction of a vessel or heart valve is called ________.
What is stenosis.
You obtained an image of the PSAX view at the level of the papillary muscles. What orientation would you use for the inferior part of the image?
What is posterior?
This maneuver is used when changing from the PLAX view to the PSAX view.
What is rotating.
What are the 4 parts of the conduction system?
SA node
AV node
Bundle of His
Purkinje fibers
The fetal heart tube should bend in which direction?
HTN stands for
Hypertension
You need to get a velocity for a vessel in a precise location. What type of Doppler would you use?
What is Pulsed Wave Doppler?
The image you took is too dark in the near field but brightness is okay for the far field. How could you adjust your image to be even in echogenicity?
What are TGCs.
Which valves open during systole?
What are the semilunar valves (aorta and pulmonary artery)?
The heart begins to beat around this day.
What is day 23?
This type of stress echo is done when a patient can't exercise.
What is Dobutamine (pharmacological)?
What is the first branch off the aorta?
What are the coronary arteries?
What is the name of the crystals that vibrate to produce ultrasound waves?
What are piezoelectric crystals?
Which cardiac vessel(s) have the highest oxygen saturation?
Pulmonary veins and aorta (left side)
The interventricular septum starts to develop in this region first.
What is the apex?
ALARA stands for
What is As Low As Reasonably Achievable?
You want to look at the 5 chamber view. How would you move your transducer to obtain the 5 chamber view when you are in the 4 chamber view?
Tilt the transducer anteriorly.