Which location is listed as "PUH" in EPIC?
What scan is also known as sonography?
What is an Ultrasound?
This large organ lies under the rib cage on the right side of the belly. It makes bile (a substance that helps digest fat). It also stores sugars and breaks down many of the body's waste products.
What is Liver?
What does MRI stand for?
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
This disease happens when fatty deposits called plaque (say "plak") build up inside your coronary arteries.
What is Coronary Artery Disease?
Which location is listed as "MUH" in EPIC?
What is Montefiore
Which scan shows the body’s organs more clearly and in greater detail than regular x-rays. This machine is often compared to looking like a donut.
What is a CT Scan?
This small organ is right under the liver. It stores bile. When you eat, this organ contracts to send bile to the bowels (intestines). The bile helps your body digest food and absorb vitamins that dissolve in fat
What is Gallbladder?
What does PET stand for?
What is positron emission tomography?
This is a substance used to make specific organs, blood vessels, or types of tissue (such as tumors) more visible on X-rays
This material may also be used during a CT scan, an ultrasound, or an MRI scan.
What is Contrast Material?
Which location is listed as "PVT" in EPIC?
What is Passavant
Which scan is used to test bone density?
What is a DEXA Scan?
This organ helps fight infection. It also filters old red blood cells. This organ sits to the left of the stomach, just behind the lower left ribs.
What is Spleen?
What does CT stand for?
What is Computed tomography?
These are medicines that have a calming effect
What are sedatives or tranquilizers?
Which location is listed as "SHY" in EPIC?
What is Shadyside
Which type of scan offers an option for a "wide" machine?
What is MRI?
This pair of organs is in the upper part of your belly, but toward your back. The kidneys remove wastes from the blood. They also make urine.
What are kidneys?
What is the full name of an ECHO?
What is Echocargiogram?
This is a small device that's placed (implanted) in the chest to help control the heartbeat. It's used to prevent the heart from beating too slowly.
What is a pacemaker?
Which location is listed as "STM" in EPIC?
What is St. Margaret
Which type of test would someone use a treadmill?
What is a Stress Test?
This gland is in the upper belly. It makes enzymes that help digest food. The digestive enzymes then move into the bowels.
What is Pancreas?
What does IV stand for?
What is Intravenous?
This is the narrowing of one or more arteries that carry blood to your kidneys (renal arteries).
What is Renal Artery Stenosis?