It's Complicated
What is atelectasis?
A type of deaver-like retractor with a heart-shaped end to it.
What is a Harrington retractor?
Resection of the gastric antrum and end-to-end anastomosis of the gastric remnant to the duodenum.
What is a Billroth I procedure?
The factor that is most influential in optimizing the rate of volume resuscitation through venous access catheters.
What is the radius? (Poiseuelle equation, radius to the 4th power)
Hernia through the semilunar line.
What is a Spigelian hernia?
Homan's sign is actually found in less than 1/3 of patients with this common post-op complication.
What is a pulmonary embolism?
The full name of a "TA" stapler.
What is a Thoraco-abdominal stapler?
A side-to-side gastroduodenostomy sometimes used to treat complications from chronic pancreatitis or gastric outlet obstruction.
What is a Jaboulay procedure?
The "curve" we like to discuss in critical care in regard to the heart's end diastolic volume as it affects the stroke volume.
What is the Frank-Starling curve?
A rare hernia through the superior lumbar triangle.
What is a Grynfeltt Hernia?
Rectal Indomethacin is utilized in order to prevent this complication specifically.
What is post-ERCP pancreatitis?
If a surgeon neither served in the Army nor Navy, they would call this instrument by this name instead.
What is a USA retractor? (or Parker-Langenbeck retractor)
The standard surgery to remove a thyroglossal duct cyst- involving excision of the cyst, its tract, and the middle part of the hyoid bone.
What is a Sistrunk procedure?
The treatment for unstable rapid atrial fibrillation.
What is synchronized cardioversion?
Hernia involving a Meckel's diverticulum.
What is a Littre's Hernia?
A complication seen in patients after Traumatic brain injury, associated with large volume dilute urine output and a high serum sodium.
What is central Diabetes Insipidus?
Another name for the "bladder retractor."
What is a Doyen retractor?
Composite graft replacement of the aortic valve, aortic root and ascending aorta, with re-implantation of the coronary arteries into the graft.
What is a Bentall procedure?
A classification system first described in 1985 as a method to predict difficult endotracheal intubation.
What is the Mallampati classification?
The abdominal muscle layer from which the inguinal ligament (aka. Poupart's Ligament) is derived.
What is the external oblique m.?
A disorder in which activation of the coagulation cascade leads to thrombosis and consumption of clotting factors and platelets, as well as activation of the fibrinolytic system, resulting in bleeding.
What is Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)?
A self-retaining retractor useful for anorectal exposures and procedures.
What is the Lone Star Retractor?
Procedure in the 1900s for the Emergency removal of massive PE, involving a Left thoracotomy, encircling aorta and pulmonary artery, clamping them briefly, opening the pulmonary artery, removing the embolus and quickly closing.
What is the Trendelenberg procedure?
In patients with acute liver failure, hyperammonemia, and worsening cerebral edema, this modality should be considered when patient is refractory to lactulose or has a contraindication to other first-line treatments.
What is Continuous Renal Replacement therapy (CRRT)?
Pain along the medial aspect of the proximal thigh from nerve compression caused by an obturator hernia.
What is the Howship-Romberg sign?