What the IR?!
This procedure removes a small sample of tissue so it can be examined in a laboratory.
What is a biopsy?
This access device stays at the vessel entry site while wires and catheters pass through it; its hub commonly includes a hemostatic valve.
What is a vascular introducer sheath?
On a procedure list, US names this imaging modality—not the country next door.
What is ultrasound?
This geological feature is what Hamiltonians usually mean when they say “the Mountain.”
What is the Niagara Escarpment?
This medical drama follows Meredith Grey and her colleagues.
What is Grey’s Anatomy?
This tube passes through the skin into the kidney’s collecting system to drain urine into an external bag.
What is a nephrostomy tube?
This powered device delivers contrast through a catheter at a programmed flow rate and volume.
What is a power injector?
For a thyroid nodule sample, FNA stands for these three words.
What is fine-needle aspiration?
This York Boulevard mansion was home to Sir Allan Napier MacNab.
What is Dundurn Castle?
J.D., Turk and Elliot work at Sacred Heart in this medical comedy.
What is Scrubs?
In a narrowed leg artery, this procedure uses an inflated balloon to widen the vessel.
What is balloon angioplasty?
Name the Amplatz wire whose two-word strength description sounds like it has been spending extra time at the gym.
What is the Amplatz Super Stiff guidewire?
In a dialysis access referral, AVF stands for this.
What is an arteriovenous fistula?
Hamilton’s tropical greenhouse shares its name with this large park.
What is Gage Park?
This title character leads a diagnostic team at Princeton-Plainsboro and is famous for his cane and abrasive bedside manner.
Who is Dr. Gregory House?
In a patient with an AV dialysis fistula, this contrast X-ray examination shows the access circuit and can reveal a narrowing.
What is a fistulogram?
Used with a coaxial introducer, this spring-loaded device collects a cylinder of tissue rather than simply aspirating loose cells.
What is a core biopsy gun?
DSA names an angiographic technique that removes background structures from the displayed image. Expand the acronym.
What is digital subtraction angiography?
The original Tim Hortons opened in 1964 on this Hamilton street.
What is Ottawa Street North?
On The Pitt, Noah Wylie’s character is nicknamed Robby. This is his actual first name.
What is Michael?
To control bleeding from a renal or bowel artery, IR may intentionally block a targeted vessel using coils or another occluding material. Name this procedure.
What is catheter embolization?
Named after a curly animal appendage, this drainage catheter has a curled tip that helps keep it in place.
What is a pigtail catheter?
In Doppler ultrasound settings, PRF stands for these three words.
What is pulse repetition frequency?
Spencer Gorge’s famous lookout is named for this former town, now part of Hamilton.
What is Dundas?
This author created ER and also wrote the novel Jurassic Park.
Who is Michael Crichton?