Medical Procedures

Question 1

What is surgical procedure similar to an angioplasty except that the catheter has a rotating shaver to cut away plaque from the artery and increase blood flow?

Answer 1

Atherectomy

Question 2

Surgically implanted device similar to a pacemaker that continuously monitors heart rhythm and delivers electrical shocks to restore a normal heart rhythm when necessary?

Answer 2

Automatic Implantable Cardioverter-Difibrillator (AICD)

Question 3

involves temporarily inserting a small balloon tipped catheter into a stenotic artery and expanding the baloon at the side of the blockage to help widen a narrow artery?

Answer 3

Balloon Angioplasty

Question 4

A balloon angioplasty is usually combined with implantation of a small metal coil called what?

Answer 4

stent

Question 5

Surgical procedure uses cardiac catheterization to treat stenotic heart valves. The balloon tipped catheter is threaded through the veins to the faulty heart valve, then inflated to open the narrowed valve to increase blood flow

Answer 5

Ballon Valvuloplasty

Question 6

What does a balloon valvuloplasty treat?

Answer 6

stenontic valves

Question 7

Surgical procedure using radio frequencies or chemicals to destroy areas of the myocardium that are causing arrhythmias?

Answer 7

Cardiac Ablation

Question 8

surgically implanted battery-powered device placed under the skin?

Answer 8

Cardiac Pacemaker

Question 9

What two things are cardiac pacemakers the standard treatment for?

Answer 9

Slow heart rate and arrhythmias

Question 10

what is done to restore normal heart rhythm for tachyarrhythmais that do not respond to medicaiton? done via electric shocks delivered by a defibrillator

Answer 10

cardioversion

Question 11

performed to treat coronary arteries that are narrowed or occluded in attempt to revascularize the myocardium?

Answer 11

Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)

Question 12

What are the 3 vessels potentially used with CABG?

Answer 12

1. saphenous vein
2. internal thoracic/mammary artery
3. radial artery

Question 13

noninvasive procedure in which inflation of pressure cuffs on the lower extremities compresses veins and assists with venous return to the heart?

Answer 13

Enhanced Extracorporeal Counterpulsation (EECP)

Question 14

inflation and deflation of a baloon surgically placed in the aorta provides circulatory assistance for patients after infarction or with cardiogenic shock?

Answer 14

Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABP)

Question 15

What does an RVAD attach and bypass?

Answer 15

attaches R atrium to pulmonary artery

bypasses the R ventricle

Question 16

what does an LVAD bypass?

Answer 16

left ventricle

Question 17

What two tubes allow for mechanical ventilation?

Answer 17

Endotracheal tube and tracheostomy tube

Question 18

Surgical procedure in which one or more of the large air spaces called bullae that form when alveoli are destoryed by emphysema are removed?

Answer 18

Bullectomy

Question 19

Why would a bullectomy be performed?

Answer 19

improve breathing for someone with emphysema

Question 20

Surgical procedure in which a portion of lung tissue damaged by emphysema is removed?

Answer 20

Lung Volume Reduction Surgery

Question 21

Mechanical ventillation provides what type of pressure to deliver air to the lungs?

Answer 21

positive pressure

Question 22

Surgical incision cutting the chest wall for access to heart, great vessels, esophagus, and diaphragm for diagnostic and therapuetic purposes?

Answer 22

Thoracotomy

Question 23

Surgically created hole through the neck through the trachea to level of the vocal cords

Answer 23

Tracheostomy

Question 24

What are the two main indications for a tracheostomy?

Answer 24

airway obstruction at/above the level of the larynx
and
respiratory failure