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USIDMS Upper Extremity Venous

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What is the best position to have your patient in while scanning the veins in the arm?   supine  
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Describe normal upper extremity venous flow.   respiratory phasicity, superimposed on cardiac pulsatility, most pronounced closest to the heart  
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Which contralateral vein should always be scanned for comparison?   subclavian vein  
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True or false. Paget-Schroetter syndrome is an effort-induced thrombus.   true  
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What are some of the symptoms of SVC syndrome?   edema of the neck, face, and arms; usually bilaterally  
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True or false. Superficial veins are affected more than deep veins in upper extremity DVT.   true  
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The innominate veins are formed by the confluence of what two veins?   the subclavian vein and the internal jugular vein  
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The axillary vein travels ________ (medially/laterally) to join the cephalic vein at the subclavian vein.   medially  
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The brachial veins travel up the arm and merge together to form the ________ vein.   axillary vein  
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The basilic vein branches off of what veins?   brachial veins  
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