Anatomy

Question 1

What is the surface anatomy for the lungs and pleura?

Answer 1

Lungs - Ribs 6 (MC) 8 (MA) 10(MS)

Pleura - Ribs 8 (MC) 10 (MA) 12 (MS)

Question 2

What are the four areas of parietal pleura?

Answer 2

Apical

Mediastinal

Diaphragmatic

Costal

Question 3

What is the joint called between the sternum and the costal cartilage?

Answer 3

Sternocostal

Question 4

what is the joint called between the costal cartilage and the ribs?

Answer 4

Costochondral

Question 5

What does the angle of louis mark?

Answer 5

2nd costal cartilages (Ribs)

Question 6

Which ribs are true?

Answer 6

1-7

Question 7

Which ribs are false?

Answer 7

8-10

Question 8

Which ribs are floating?

Answer 8

11-12

Question 9

Where are the trachea, carina, main bronchus

Answer 9

Question 10

Which main bronchus is more likely to allow foreign objects in and why?

Answer 10

Right as it is Wider, Vertical, Short

Question 11

How many zones are there in the airway and which ones are conducting and which ones are exchange?

Answer 11

23

1-16 is conduction

17-23 is exchange

Question 12

Label hyoid (C3), thyroid cartilage, cricoid and thyrohyoid membrane, cricythyroid membrane

Answer 12

Question 13

Label the hilums

Answer 13

Question 14

What is a landmark for telling which hilum you are looking at?

Answer 14

The side the pulmonary ligament is on is the hilum

Question 15

What things are in a lung hilum and where are they situated?

Answer 15

Pulmonary Artery (Above)

Pulmonary vein (in ligament)

Bronchus (Middle)

Question 16

What are the three types of intercostal muscles?

Answer 16

External, internal, innermost

Question 17

Where are the intercostal arteries, veins and nerves found and what do they run in?

Answer 17

Between the internal and innermost and in the costal groove

Question 18

Where do you insert a chest drain?

Answer 18

Mid axilla, 5ICS

Question 19

Where do you insert chest drain for a tension pneumothorax?

Answer 19

2ICS MCL

Question 20

What anatomical landmark do you use for a chest drain or nerve block?

Answer 20

Go above the rib as the nerve is situation in the groove.

For a nerve block you go below the rib as you want to get the nerve

Question 21

What is the blood supply to the intercostals?

Answer 21

Intercostal arteries via the aorta for the posterior 2/3

Internal mammory arteries for 1/3

Question 22

What is another name for internal mammory arteries?

Answer 22

Internal thoracic artery