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During pregnancy the mother’s cardiac output increases by this percent.
What is 30 - 50 % ?
One hemoglobin molecule combines with this many molecules of oxygen
What is 4?
A dissection distal to the left subclavian artery and involves the descending aorta only is categorized as this DeBakey Type dissection.
What is DeBakey Type III ?
This organ is the primary organ that produces alpha-1 antitrypsin.
What is the liver?
This law states that the heart’s stroke volume increases in response to an increase in the volume of blood in the ventricles at the end of diastole.
What is Frank- Starlings Law?
During CPB a pregnant patient should be placed in this position.
What is Left lateral tilt?
What are Neutrophils?
A shunt from the aorta, distal to the left subclavian, to the left pulmonary artery.
What is a Patent ductus arteriosus? (PDA)
During embryological development the germ layer that gives rise to the heart.
What is the Mesoderm?
This law states that the Solubility of a gas in a liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas above the liquid.
What is Henry’s Law?
According to literature the best trimester for a pregnant woman to have open heart surgery is.
What is the 2nd trimester?
Fibrin stabilizing factor is also known as this factor.
What is Factor XIII?
The Jatene procedure is a surgical procedure to correct this life-threatening heart defect.
What is TGA? (Transposition of the Great Arteries)
Daily Double!
The continuity equation is used to calculate this.
This law states that for a gas at a constant temperature, pressure and volume are inversely proportional.
What is Boyle’s Law?
During CPB on a pregnant patient this diuretic should not be used.
What is Mannitol?
This enzyme is essential for the transport of carbon dioxide.
What is Carbonic anhydrase?
The Blalock-Taussig operation is a surgical procedure that creates a shunt between these two arteries.
What is the subclavian and pulmonary artery?
Protein S deficiency results in this.
What is Hypercoagulability ?
Daily Double
This Law describes the pressure drop of a fluid through a cylindrical pipe.
You should avoid giving this vasopressor on CPB with a pregnant patient.
What is Phenylephrine (Neosynephrine)
This white blood cell is most strongly linked with myocardial reperfusion injury.
What is Neutrophils?
This syndrome refers to an untreated congenital cardiac defect with pulmonary hypertension due to pulmonary vascular disease and a reversed shunt.
What is Eisenmenger syndrome?
The portal vein is formed from the confluence of these two vessels.
What is the Splenic and Superior mesenteric vein?
This law describes the diffusion of particles from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration.
What is Fick’s Law ?