Day 4

I got to enter the cardiac lab to see how angiogram is done.

Prep the patient by cleaning the sites of incision with iodine+alcohol.

Inject local anaesthetic- Lignocaine.

Insert catheter into the radial artery.

Guide wire is used to guide the tube into the aortic root.

The contrast dye is injected to examine if there is any abnormality in the coronary arteries.

A patient had 3 arteries narrowed. Another had severely calcified coronary arteries.

Example of an angiogram:

What I learnt:

Left coronary artery is divided into Left Anterior Descending and Left Circumflex.

Right coronary artery gives the Posterior Descending Artery