Chapter 21- Transcranial Dopplers Flashcards
The opthalmic artery branches off of what vessel?
terminal ICA
The frontal artery arises from what artery?
The opthalmic artery
The frontal artery supplies what part of the head?
forehead
The supraorbital artery arises from what artery?
the opthalmic artery
What is TCD’s good for detecting?
Brain death, emboli, subarachnoid hemorrhage, stenosis, occlusion
What is the main limitation with transcranial dopplerS?
The penetration of the temporal bone is not good.
What are the three acoustic windows we use for TCDs?
transtemporal, transorbital, and suboccipital
What are we measuring during a TCD?
Very important.
the Time Averaged Max Velocity(TAMV) OR MEAN VELOCITY
we are NOT NOT NOT doing peak systolic. only the mean velocity.
In what order of technique should we go in when doing TCD
remember the techniques are : Transorbital, transforamenal, and transtemporal.
1) Transtemporal to get the ICA, MCA, ACA, and PCA
2) Ipsilateral Transorbital to find opthalmic and carotid siphon
2) Transforamenal to get distal vertebral and basilar artery.
The following vessels should be seen in the Transtemporal view
(There is 4 of them)
Middle cerebral artery, terminal ica, Anterior communicating artery, and posterior cerebral artery
The following vessels should be seen in the transopthalmic view
There is 2
Opthalmic and ICA
Which vessels should be seen in the subforamenal view?
Vertebral and Basilar
The verebral and basilar arteries should have flow coming towards or away transducer?
Away
The middle cerebral artery should have flow going towards or away from transducer?
towards
Which vessel of the COW has the highest velocity?
middle cerebral
What are some factors that can affect the intracranial blood flow?
age, sex, hematocrit, oxygen levels.
The highest mean in all of these vessels shouldn’t get any higher than 55 TAMV cm/sec
True or False
True
In an intracranial stenosis, the velocities are going to be higher or lower?
Higher
Vasospasms most often are seen in which vessel?
Middle cerebral artery (mean velocity >120 cm/sec
When a patient is brain dead, the blood flow goes from low resistant to high resistant, so we will see NO diastolic flow in ICA, MCA, or ACA.
True or False
True. The brain is dying so it doesnt need the constant flow that low resistant provides, there fore becomes low-resistant
IMPORTANT!!!!
We can detect micro-emboli. Typically it will sound like a moan or chip. What will we see on the waveform?
a random line will be seen with the chirp noise.
Where does this micro-emboli come from?
Carotid stenosis or a cardiac source
What is an example of the cardiac source micro-emboli can come from?
The patent Foramen Ovale-
this alows blood and emboli to travel from the venous side to the arterial side in the left atrium.
MCA stands for ?
Middle cerebral artery