Cardiac Diagnostic

Question 1

Chest X-ray

Answer 1

Provides information on heart size and pulmonary blood flow patterns

Question 2

ECG

Answer 2

Graphic measure of electrical activity of the heart

Question 3

Holter Monitor

Answer 3

24 hour continuous ECG recording used to assess dysrhythmias

Question 4

Echocardiogram

Answer 4

Use of high frequency sound waves to produce an image of cardiac structures

Question 5

Transesophageal echocardiogram

Answer 5

Obtains imagines of posterior heart structures

Question 6

Cardiac catheterization

Answer 6

Imaging study using a radiopaque catheter inserted through a peripheral blood vessel and advanced into the heart to measure heart structures and blood flow patterns

Question 7

Electrophysiology and ablation

Answer 7

Special catheter with electrodes employed to record electrical activity from within the heart, used to diagnose rhythm disturbances

Question 8

Exercise stress test

Answer 8

Monitor of HR, BP, ECG, and 02 at rest and during exercise.

Question 9

Cardiac MRI

Answer 9

Noninvasive imaging tech used to evaluate vascular anatomy outside of heart and estimates ventricular mass and volume

Question 10

Echo provides estimated EF

Def? Normal %?

Answer 10

Ejection fraction is how much blood the L ventricle links out with each contraction

Normal- 50%-70%