Term | Definition |
Who is credited with the development of specialized preformed, femoral approach catheters? | Melvin Judkins |
The Swiss cardiologist credited with the first successful PTCA was | Andreas Gruentzig |
The surgical shunt for palliative treatment of congenital pulmonary arteries was developed by the pediatric cardiologist | Helen Taussig |
In 1895 X rays were discovered by | Wilhelm Roentgen |
In 1959 the first selective coronary angiography was performed at Cleveland Clinic by | Mason Sones |
Dr. Kanji Inoue is credited with the development in 1985 of | Balloon mitral commissurotomy |
Werner Forssman was the first person to | Place a catheter inside a living human heart, his own |
Which event came latest in the history of invasive cardiology? | Development of the drug eluting stent |
At Cleveland Clinic in 1967, Dr Rene Favaloro performed the first | Saphenous vein bypass graft |
In 1970 doctors Swan and Ganz developed the first | Thermodilution cardiac output catheter |
In 1953, who developed the percutaneous vascular access technique involving a double arterial wall puncture? | Seldinger |
In 1964 dr. Charles Dotter first attempted transluminal angioplasty using: | Dilators |
Steam autoclave sterilization of surgical instruments was developed in the 1870s by whom? | Robert Koch |
The only treatments available for myocardial infarction wear oxygen, morphine and nitroglycerin until heart attacks were stopped by | Intracoronary thrombolysis in 1978 |
Claude Bernard is credited with first use of the term: | Cardiac catheterization |
When did Claude Bernard first used the term of cardiac catheterization in his recording of the ventricular pressure is in a horse? | 1844 |
The first accurate description of the circulation of blood through the heart was published in 1628 by | William Harvey |
In 1870 this German physicist developed a method of determining cardiac output based on arterial venous oxygen difference | Fick |
The formula for valve area was developed in 1951 by: | Gorlin and Gorlin |
Who invented the first floor of scope in 1897 | |
| Edison |
The angiographic contrast developed in the 1920s, that made cardiac angiography safe is based on | Iodine |
Whats 10 square Johnson and Johnson responsible for creating | Palmaz-Schatz |
Inoue | Balloon catheter |
Kurt Amplatz | |