Cardiac UTZ - Vascular Imaging

Blood comes into the right atrium form the body, moves into the right ventricle and is pushed into the pulmonary arteries in the lungs.

• Blood Circulation

• Systemic Circulation

• Pulmonary Circulation

• Coronary Circulation

Arteries carry deoxygenated blood away from the heart.

• True

• False

This valve is located between right atrium and right ventricle.

• Aortic Valve

• Mitral Valve

• Pulmonary Valve

• Tricuspid Valve

Veins carry deoxygenated blood towards the heart.

• True

• False

After picking up oxygen, the blood travels back to the heart through the pulmonary veins into the left atrium, to the left ventricle and out to the body's tissues through the aorta.

• Blood Circulation

• Systemic Circulation

• Pulmonary Circulation

• Coronary Circulation

TRUE or FALSE. In cardiac ultrasound, the patient needs to be NPO for 4 hours.

• True

• False

How many hours does an adult patient needs to be NPO in abdominal vascular ultrasound?

(a)  

TRUE or FALSE. It is called mechanical effect if there is a tissue heating.

• True

• False

It is referred to as cavitation and is caused by the oscillation of small gas bubbles within the ultrasound field.

(a)  

TRUE or FALSE. In transesophageal ultrasound, the sonographer will attach sticky patches (electrodes) to your body to help detect and conduct your electrical currents.

• True

• False