Plastics & Reconstructive
Prominences that form the cheeks and the lateral walls of the orbits.
What are malar or zygomatic bones?
Lining of the inner surface of the ribs.
What is the Parietal pleura?
Blood clot, fat, air, or a small portion of a tumor that circulates through the cardiovascular system.
What is an embolus?
Instrument used for cutting split thickness skin grafts.
What is a dermatome?
What is MOHS Micrographic Surgery?
A skin graft that is composed of the epidermis and all of the dermis.
What is full thickness skin graft?
C-shaped rings that prevent the trachea from collasping.
What is Hyaline cartilage?
The largest artery in the body.
What is the aorta?
Used in diagnosing lymph node involvement for lung cancer.
What is a mediastinoscope?
Minimally invasive procedure used to treat thoracic diseases and disorders of the esophagus, lungs, mediastinum, pericardium, and pleura.
What is VATS?
A skin graft that involves removing the epidermis and approximately half of the dermis for relocation to another part of the body.
What is split thickness skin graft?
Slight concave portion on the medial side of each lung where the bronchus and other structures enter.
What is Hilum?
Neutralizes Heparin
What is Protomine Sulfate?
Apparatus used in CV surgery to remove unoxygenated blood from the venous system, filter it, and return it to the arterial system.
What is the Cardiopulmonary Bypass or CPB machine?
Total removal of the lung.
What is Pneumonectomy?
A skin graft taken from one's self.
What is autograft?
Leaves the lungs through the pulmonary veins and enters the left atrium of the heart.
What is oxygenated blood?
Characterized by the formation of yellow-colored plaques of cholesterol and lipids on the inner layers of the vessel walls.
What is atherosclerosis?
Used to partially occlude the aorta for the proximal-end anastomosis of the saphenous vein grafts in CABG.
What is a Lambert-Kay Aorta Clamp?
Open heart procedure performed on a beating heart and does not require the use of CPB machine.
What is OPCAB?
The thick, deep layer that provides collagen for strength and elastin for pliability of the skin.
What is the Reticular layer?
Referred to as "Pacemaker of the heart."
What is the SA node?
The Gold Standard in diagnosing vascular disease.
What is angiography?
A heavy retractor that resembles a spatula that is bent in an S shape.
What is Davidson Scapula Retractor?
Procedure used to perform safe access to blood vessels under the guidance of ultrasound and uses a guide wire.
What is Seldinger Technique?