The lowest oxygen saturation levels are found in correct answers The coronary sinus
The coronary sinus drains blood from the correct answers myocardium
Tricuspid valve consists of correct answers Anterior, posterior, & medial (septal) leaflets
Which TV leaflets can be seen in PLAX view correct answers Anterior & posterior
Which valves open when ventricular pressure drops below atrial pressure correct answers
Atrioventricular valves open
Time from AV closure to MV opening correct answers IVRT
T or F- Doppler is better to evaluate VSD due to higher pressures correct answers True
Dukes criteria is used to assess patients with correct answers Endocarditis
Abnormal strain correct answers Less than -17
Normal EPSS correct answers <7mm or 0.7cm
Spades sign indicates correct answers Apical hypertrophy
Most common infiltrative disease is correct answers Amyloidosis
prominant trabeculations & systolic dysfunction are signs of what correct answers LV
noncompaction
QRS complex correct answers Electrical ventricular systole depolarization
Mechanical ventricular diastole
First heart sound is produced by correct answers Closure of the AV valves.
Second heart sound is produced by correct answers closure of semilunar valves
What affect does dobutamine have on the heart correct answers Increased oxygen demand & LV
contractility
Normal response to exercise correct answers End diastolic volume increases
End systolic volume decreases
Smaller pulse samples are more accurate. What is the average sample size to evaluate valves?
correct answers 2-4mm
, Cardiac output equation correct answers CO = SV x HR
What do the X & Y axis demonstrate with 3D imaging? correct answers X= width of box
Y= height of box
The crab view in SSN demonstrates correct answers The 4 pulmonary veins emptying into the
LA
Which view is preferred to demonstrate a VSD correct answers Subcostal 4ch
Continuity equation is used to calculate correct answers Valve area
Dp/Dt assesses what correct answers LV systolic function
What does Bernoulli equation assess correct answers Pressure gradients
Early detection of LV systolic dysfunction can be assessed with correct answers Speckle strain
Acoustic gel is used to reduce difference of impedance between correct answers Matching layer
& skin
cardiac index equation correct answers CI = CO/BSA
What abnormalities demonstrate respiratory variations correct answers Pericardial effusion &
constrictive pericarditis
Pulmonary hypertension is indicated when the pulmonary artery pressure exceeds correct
answers >25mmHg
Which AV cusps are seen in PLAX correct answers Right & non-coronary
Atrial septum, RV free wall, & RV apex are supplied by which coronary artery correct answers
Right coronary artery
When is LV pressure the lowest? correct answers onset of diastole
Where is aortic isthmus located correct answers between the left subclavian artery and the
ligamentum arteriosum
Small nodular areas on AV cusps correct answers Nodules of Arantius
Normal MVA correct answers 4-6 cm^2
Occurs between AV closure & MV opening correct answers IVRT