🩻 How do we X-ray the heart’s arteries? 🩻 Angiography gives us a real-time look inside the coronary arteries, helping identify blockages that could lead to heart attacks. Using contrast dye and X-ray imaging, this procedure is a crucial tool for diagnosing and guiding treatment decisions. Watch to see how it works, and visit heart.medicalvisual.com for free educational resources to help your patients better understand their heart health! ❤️ . . . . . #angiogram #angiography #catheter #cathlab

Right heart catheterization animation In this clip the Swan-Ganz catheter starts in the right atrium>right ventricle>pulmonary artery >pulmonary capillary wedge pressure There are a multitude of things you can diagnostically do with a right heart cath. Things like basic pressures, valve studies, shunts, and cardiac output. Which valve would we be assessing if we did a simultaneous pressure of the PCWP and LVEDP? 👇 . . . . . Source @cardiovascularhc #heart #cardiac #cardiacsurgery #cathlab #diag