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DVT398-AH3
USIDMS Upper Extremity Venous
Question | Answer |
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True or False. Superficial veins in upper extremity carry less blood than the deep veins. | False |
What is considered an intimal injury to cause an upper venous thrombosis? | Indwelling venous catheter, pacemaker wire, stents, or venipuncture |
Define a local and palpable cord. | Suspected superficial thrombophlebitis |
What vessel connects the cephalic and basilic veins? | Median cubital vein |
Define Paget-Schroetter syndrome. | Spontaneous thrombosis of subclavian- axillary vein |
Edema of neck, face, and arms and usually occurs bilaterally are symptoms of what? | Superior Vena Cava Syndrome |
A vein must be how many millimeters to considered for a bypass graft? | 2.5mm |
With a patient's arm positioned in the "pledge", the sonographer is visualizing what vein? | Axillary vein |
True or false. The subclavian vein only receives blood from deep veins. | False |
Superficial veins of the upper extremity are usually larger than deep veins. | True |