Last Minute Additions Flashcards
[Echocardiography]
Frequency range?
2.5-5.00 mHz
[Echocardiography]
Color of:
- Fluids
- Solids
- Calcium
- Black
- Gray
- White
[Echocardiography]
Doppler Color Flow
- Blue
- Red
- Mosaic
- Away
- Towards Transducer
- Regurgitation
[Echocardiography]
Agents used to act as stressors of the heart (3)
Dobutamine (Most Common)
Dipyramidole
Adenosine
[Nuclear Cardiology]
What photons does it emit?
Gamma Rays
[Nuclear Cardiology]
What isotopes are commonly used?
Technetium 99m
Thalium 201
[Nuclear Cardiology]
What does a white image mean?
A dark image?
White: Good blood supply
Dark: Low/Absent Blood Supply
[Nuclear Cardiology]
Lateral Wall Defect caused by?
Left Circumflex Artery Defect
[Nuclear Cardiology]
Anterior Wall Defect caused by?
Left Anterior Descending Artery Defect
[Nuclear Cardiology]
Ischemia is evident during rest or stress?
Myocardial Infarction is evident during rest or stress?
Ischemia: Only in stress
MI: Both
What is Laplace’s Law?
T = Pr
What is a Tactile Fremitus?
How do you palpate for it?
Palpable vibrations transmitted through bronchopulmonary tree to chest wall
Use the ball or the ulnar edge of palms
[Percussion Notes]
Flatness
Solid replaces lung, large pleural effusion
[Percussion Notes]
Dullness
Fluid or solid replaces air in lungs
Pneumonia, pleural effusion, hemothorax, emphysema, fibrous tissue or tumor
[Percussion Notes]
Resonance
Normal lung
Simple Chronic Bronchitis