Lesions
RF ablation is considered to have this affect on tissue vasculature.
What is vasculature is not preserved; the tissue becomes stiff.
This industry also utilizes PFA.
What is the food industry - to extend shelf life, retain quality, short processing time
True or false: PFA energy can be modified by the physician during ablation.
What is false.
This is the process that PFA causes to destroy cells.
What is Apoptosis.
True or false: Birds sweat.
What is false.
This will result in deeper lesions with PFA.
What is multiple applications and contact force.
What is the application of intense and short electric pulses that make the cell membrane permeable.
What is false. PFA should be considered minimally thermal.
True or false: PFA is designed to selectively affect myocardial cells.
What is true.
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can do this.
Fly backwards.
True or false: PFA ablation results in uniform tissue death.
What is true.
These are the two other medical applications PFA can be used for.
What is oncology and drug delivery.
These are the three critical elements that create a PFA waveform. (There are three)
What is applications, pulse packets, multi-second delays.
This describes the phenomenon of Apoptosis (two statements)
What is an imbalance inside the cell that causes it to not return to normal; programmed cell death.
Owls can turn their heads this many degrees.
What is 270.
It is thought that PFA preserves tissue architecture. Describe what that means.
What is that the tissue surrounding targeted myocytes remains flexible. It is able to continue to contract with active heart tissue.
This is the electroporation threshold for nerve cells.
What is 3800 V/cm
These are the factors that contribute to PFA energy. (There are six)
What is: pulse strength, bipolar vs. unipolar, number of pulses, pulse duration, monophasic vs. biphasic, pulse frequency.
This is the electroporation threshold for the myocardium.
400 V/cm
This is how Turkey Vultures cool themselves off.
They defecate on themselves.
This describes why tissue contact is important for PFA.
What is that contact prevents electrical current leakage to surrounding tissue.
This is the name of the treatment used in oncology that utilizes PFA technology.
What is electrochemotherapy (ECT)
Thought experiment: Our PFA technology is 1800V peak to peak. The electroporation threshold of the myocardium is 400 V. This explains why the technology delivers a higher degree of energy.
What is electric field attenuation and tissue depth.
This is the type of current that PFA utilizes.
Direct current (DC). Alternating current (AC) flows back and forth in a wave, while direct current (DC) flows steadily in only one direction
A woodpecker experiences g-forces this amount of times what would lead to traumatic brain injury in humans.
What is twenty times. I couldn't find anything on the internet that said they were smart birds.