The book references have it as guidewire. nm

• Guide wire or guidewire? - CB
  • I always use guidewire, & QA seems okay with it. nm - Jaynie
    • The book references have it as guidewire. nm - Anon

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really carefully to discern between Glidewire and guidewire, as these docs don't always speak clearly, and there are different types of guidewires besides the Glidewire...boy talk about a play of words. LOL

Is it correct as 0.35 guidewire or 0.035 guidewire, I get QA back from 2 different people, each telling me to do it in a different way.  Thanks

According to the medical and surgical equipment word book it is guidewire, guide wire.  One word is preferred, but. .

Glidewire is one word

There are plenty more, but you can Google it yourself if you're interested. 

http://www.deborah.org/cardiology/cs3.html

Nuclear Cardiology
The Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory performs stress testing with and without cardiac imaging. Cardiac scintigraphy includes perfusion and functional imaging at rest and with physical or pharmacological stress. The section performs single isotope cardiac studies individualized to the needs of the patient and the referring physician. The laboratory can perform gated SPECT imaging to provide perfusion and functional assessment of myocardial viability in the short, horizontal, and vertical long axes. In addition to four SPECT cameras, the section has multi-crystal cameras for first pass angiography at rest or with exercise. The following studies can be done with exercise or pharmacological stress, with or without gated SPECT imaging: thallium-201 perfusion imaging; thallium-201/technetium-99m sestamibi perfusion and functional imaging, and technetium-99m sestamibi perfusion imaging with or without functional assessment. Positron emission tomography for tumor identification or myocardial viability is available following telephone consultation with one of the physicians.

http://www.csmc.edu/8490.html

Like the thallium scan, the sestamibi scan shows how well supplied with blood and oxygen your heart is. Sestamibi refers to the type of radioactive isotope used in this test to make the flow of blood visible. Thallium and sestamibi stress tests are more accurate and informative than a standard exercise stress test.

As with the thallium test, you will be connected to an electrocardiogram. You will be asked to exercise as hard as you can on a treadmill or bicycle. (If your doctor thinks that exercise is not safe for you or that you will not be able to exercise hard enough because of bone or joint problems, you will be given a drug that has the same effect on your heart as exercising.)

Hello all.  Is J wire with or without a hyphen? (have seen both ways, not sure which is correct)  I also here dictator saying "hit" wire?  Is this HIT for HI-torque? TIA

Using a Microvasive RX 44 Sphincterotome and a 0.035 inch, 260 cm "Hydrojag" guidewire the ampulla was engaged and the common bile duct was preferentially cannulated.

I can't find Hydrojag anywhere.

The patient is having the following procedure:Endoscopic Retrograde cholangiography with biliary sphincterotomy, biliary balloon sweep and biliary stent placement.

TIA.

Stedman's has both listed.  Is there a difference?  Stedman's Spellchecker accepts both.

Thanks!

including Dorland's 29th ed and there is no inframedial per se.  Just looking into One Look dictionary to do a wide search of online dictionaries, it is not even listed as a medical term.  I know it sounds like a real word, inframedial, inferior of the midline, but in all my years, it has been inferomedial for me.