Cardiopulmonary - Chapman's Points

Question 1

What is the location of the arm circulation posterior chapman’s point?

Answer 1

Located bilaterally along the inner margin of the scapula at the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd rib bilaterally

Question 2

What is the location of the bronchi posterior chapman’s point? What two other visceral structures share this location?

Answer 2

Midway between the spinous and transverse processes of T2 bilaterally

Note: same for the esophagus and thyroid

Question 3

What is the location of the lower lung posterior chapman’s point?

Answer 3

Midway between the spinous and transverse processes of T4 and T5 in the intertransverse space bilaterally

Question 4

What is the location of the upper lung posterior chapman’s point?

Answer 4

Midway between the spinous and transverse processes of T3 and T4 in the intertransverse space bilaterally

Question 5

What is the location of the myocardium posterior chapman’s point?

Answer 5

Midway between the spinous and transverse processes of T2and T3 in the intertransverse space bilaterally

Question 6

What is the location of the larynx and pharynx posterior chapman’s points? What two other structures share this location?

Answer 6

Midway between the spinous and transverse processes of C2 bilaterally

Note: same location as the posterior point for the tongue and sinuses

Question 7

What is the location of the arm circulation anterior chapman’s point?

Answer 7

Muscular attachments of the pectoralis minor muscle on ribs 3, 4, and 5, bilaterally

Question 8

What is the location of the bronchi anterior chapman’s point? What two other structures share this location?

Answer 8

2nd intercostal space near the sternum, bilaterally

Note: Same location as the anterior point for the esophagus and thyroid

Question 9

What is the location of the larynx anterior chapman’s point?

Answer 9

Upper surface of the 2nd rib, 2-3” lateral to the sternum. Occurs bilaterally.

Question 10

What is the location of the lower lung anterior chapman’s point?

Answer 10

4th intercostal space near the sternum, bilaterally

Question 11

What is the location of the upper lung anterior chapman’s point?

Answer 11

3rd intercostal space near the sternum, bilaterally

Question 12

What is the location of the myocardium anterior chapman’s point?

Answer 12

2nd intercostal space near the sternum, bilaterally

Question 13

What is the location of the pharynx anterior chapman’s point?

Answer 13

On the front of the first rib 1” medial to where it crosses under the clavicle

Question 14

What is the location of the nasal anterior chapman’s point?

Answer 14

1st costochondral joint

Question 15

What is the location of the nasal posterior chapman’s point?

Answer 15

Lateral aspect of the transverse process of CV1

Question 16

What is the location of the tonsilar anterior chapman’s point?

Answer 16

1st intercostal space, near the sternum

Question 17

What is the location of the tonsilar posterio chapman’s point?

Answer 17

Posterior aspect of the transverse process of CV1, midway between its most lateral point and the nuchal ligament.

Question 18

What is the location of the sinuses anterior chapman’s point?

Answer 18

3 1/2” lateral to the sternum, on the upper edge of the 2nd rib

Question 19

What is the location of the sinuses posterior chapman’s point?

Answer 19

Midway between the spinous and transverse processes of CV2 on the transverse process.

Question 20

What is the location of the middle ear anterior chapman’s point?

Answer 20

On the upper edge of the calvicle, just lateral to where it crosses the first rib.

Question 21

What is the location of the middle ear posterior chapman’s point?

Answer 21

On the upper edge of the tip of CV1 transverse process