Heart as a Pump

Question 1

What are the two things that cause diastolic murmurs?

Answer 1

Aortic regurgitation and mitral stenosis

Question 2

What branches off the aortic arch?

Answer 2

Brachiocephalic trunk, left common carotid artery, and left subclavian artery

Question 3

What branches from the brachiocephalic trunk?

Answer 3

Right subclavian artery and the right common carotid artery

Question 4

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

Answer 4

Compression of the nerves and vessels that pass from the neck to the axilla. Usually due to an additional cervical rib, muscular abnormalities, or injury

Question 5

What artery does the vagus nerve travel with?

Answer 5

The common carotid artery

Question 6

Whats in the anterior mediastinum?

Answer 6

Thymus, lymph nodes, fat

Question 7

Whats in the middle mediastinum?

Answer 7

Heart and the roots of the great vessels (ascending aorta, SVC, pulmonary trunk, pulmonary vein)

Question 8

Whats in the posterior mediastinum?

Answer 8

esophagus, thoracic duct, sympathetic chain, azygous, descending thoracic aorta

Question 9

Where are the esophageal constrictions?

Answer 9

C6, T4/T5, T10

Question 10

What does the azygous drain?

Answer 10

Most of the posterior thoracic wall