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Diagnostics Tests O1

Diagnostics Tests and Treatments

TermDefinition
Heart Catheterization Small tubes are passed into the heart chambers and blood vessels around the heart. (Patient is awake during procedure)
Angiogram During a heart catheterization, dye is injected into the coronary arteries in order to detect blockages in the arteries.
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Treatment for blocked arteries that can be performed upon completion of an angiogram.
Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator (IPA) Medications that dissolve clots, called thrombolytic agents.
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Requires open heart surgery. If PTCA cannot treat blockage, open surgery is necessary
Cardioversion External electrical shocks are applied to a patient in order to correct a cardiac dysrhythmia-usually a rapid heart beat.
Defibrillation Procedure where electrical shock is applied to a patient whose heart is beating in lethal dysrhythmia. (Heart is stopped for split second to allow normal pacemaker of the heart to start again. Patient is unconscious, has no pulse or blood pressure when do
Implanted Cardiac Defibrillator (ICD) Small defibrillator implanted into a patient's chest or abdomen wall that will automatically detect a dangerously fast heartbeat and defibrillate. (Last resort)
Pacemaker A device used in patient's whose heartbeat is too slow.
Echocardiogram Test that uses ultrasonic waves to obtain a picture of the chambers, valves and walls of the heart.
EKG A recording of the electrical impulses that produces the heartbeats.
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