She is dictating: A #4.0 Judkins left catheter was now advanced through the right femoral artery sheath. This was advanced through the ostium of the left coronary artery. Shouldnt this be left? ...
There were irregularities noted distally less than 20%. Diags were normal. Circumflex was a moderate caliber vessel that was normal. OM1 was a B caliber vessel that was normal. ...
I am new MT (sort of). I am doing a cardiac cath from an ESL with marbles in his mouth. This is a false positive stress test, and I am going nuts with one phrase. It is:
"The left anterior descending artery was large, 5 mm in diameter. (s/l tran sif ico) was mildly tortuous but no focal lesions."
I googled the phrase and found it, and was led to this site, but it is not here. Anybody have a clue on the (s/l trans sif ico)? ...
Hello, hoping someone can help. Perclose s/l ?otomy closure device? Anyone have any ideas? This is for a cardiac cath also ?tic aortic valve stenois? thanks!!! ...
Has anyone ever heard the initials PNK or TNK for cath procedure. Patient having multiple procedures done and all I know is that it is a thrombolytic agent. I have looked up both in the abbreviation site and find nothing for TNK (which sounds more like it), but PNK??? Any thoughts or ideas, some med I would assume but I have stumped on this one.
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No mitral regurgitation. The R-R interval is 102 milliseconds. s/l Polintative ventriculography. There is mild anterolateral hypokinesis, otherwise the left ventricular appears to contract at normal coordinated fashion. ...
It seems like every time I transcribe a cardiac cath report, there's yet another new sheath, catheter, introducer, etc., that I've never heard of. Does anyone have a go-to website listing these? ...
In a cath report, is it support wire or sport wire? With Google, it seems like it should be support wire, but it sure sounds like he (ESL) says sport wire.
JR4 guiding catheter with side hole was used to selectively engage the right coronary artery. Short sport wire was advanced all the way to the distal vessel. After that, we placed 2.75 x 30-mm Resolute drug-eluting stent
We used a 3.75 EBU guiding catheter selectively engaged left main and the same sport wire was advanced ...
The infant was electively intubated with the 4.0 endotracheal tube and placed on initial ventilatory settings of 100%, pressure 24/4, and rate of 60 with the first arterial blood gas returning at 7.44 per 35 per 491, base deficit 0.3.
Not certain how to type the highlighted portion of this sentence. I am a student. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance. ...
He dictates: A small amount of Surgifoam was placed for hemostasis. I can't find it in my dictionary and I googled it and it shows it in all caps and just the s capitalized. It sounds like this is what he says, but I am not sure if it is all caps or not.
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Does this sound right. The doctor says "Using an arrow and s/l including a dart device, the radial artery was entered, and a wire was advanced..." Thanks for helping!! ...