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CCRN Critical Care Nursing

Category - Pediatrics

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A child was scheduled for a palliative surgery, which creates anastomosis of the subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery. This procedure is called:

Waterston-Cooley
Raskkind Procedure
Coronary artery bypass
Blalock-Tausig

Explanation

Answer: D - Blalock-Tausig procedure its just a temporary or palliative surgery which creates a shunt between the aorta and pulmonary artery so that the blood can leave the aorta and enter the pulmonary artery and thus oxygenating the lungs and return to the left side of the heart, then to the aorta then to the body. This procedure also makes use of the subclavian vein so pulse is not palpable at the right arm.

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