CORRECT ANSWERS
What is IVS? - Answer- interventricular septum. Separates the ventricles
What are the AV valves? - Answer- tricuspid and mitral
What is ventricular systole? - Answer- contraction of ventricles
What is pulmonic circulation? - Answer- Circulation from right side of the heart to lungs,
lungs back to the left side of the heart.
What is the area length method? - Answer- When apical are foreshortened
What is PISA used for? - Answer- Measures TR and MR severity
What is stroke volume? - Answer- the amount of blood ejected by the heart in any one
contraction
What is a shunt? - Answer- Atypical blood flow pattern through the heart
What is the RVSP equation? - Answer- 4V^2 + RAP
What is normal EF? - Answer- 55-65%
What is hemodynamics? - Answer- study of blood flow
What are the 5 variables of Doppler shift degree? - Answer- Transducer frequency,
speed of sound, blood flow velocity, angle of intercept, and double Doppler shift
What is a regurgitant valve? - Answer- Leaky value, blood flows backwards
What are the heart wall layers? - Answer- endocardium, myocardium, epicardium
What is intracardiac pressure? - Answer- Velocity of regurg jet or shunt flow reflects the
difference in pressure between chambers
What is a double Doppler shift? - Answer- 2 dipper shifts that occur when a wave is sent
a received.POS = forward (red). Neg: backward (blue)