Lesson 9 (Part 4)

Question 1

Where is the esophagus located?

Answer 1

Most posterior

Question 2

Where is the trachea located compared to the esophagus?

Answer 2

Anterior to it

Question 3

Where does the right pulmonary artery pass?

Answer 3

Underneath the aortic arch

Question 4

Where does the left pulmonary artery pass?

Answer 4

Anterior to descending thoracic aorta

Question 5

Where is the SVC compared to the ascending aorta?

Answer 5

To the right of it

Question 6

Where is the pulmonary trunk located?

Answer 6

Anterior to the aorta

- then it switches

Question 7

Where are the great vessel located?

Answer 7

Above the heart

Question 8

Where does the main pulmonary trunk arise from?

Answer 8

The right ventricle

Question 9

What does the main pulmonary trunk bifurcate into?

Answer 9

Left and right pulmonary arteries

Question 10

What kind of blood do the pulmonary arteries carry?

Answer 10

Deoxygenated blood

Question 11

What do pulmonary veins do?

Answer 11

Drain the oxygenated blood from the lungs into the left atrium

Question 12

What are the 3 main branches off of the aorta arch?

Answer 12

1. Brachiocephalic
2. Left common carotid artery
3. Left subclavian artery

Question 13

What makes up the brachiocephalic veins? (2)

Answer 13

1. Subclavian veins

2. Internal jugular veins

Question 14

What makes up the SVC? (2)

Answer 14

1. Left brachiocephalic vein

2. Right brachiocephalic vein

Question 15

Where does the SVC empty into?

Answer 15

The superior aspect of the right atrium

Question 16

Where does the IVC empty into?

Answer 16

The inferior aspect of the right atrium

Question 17

What is a 2 chamber view?

Answer 17

Long axis view

- sagittal

Question 18

What does the long axis view demonstrate?

Answer 18

The left ventricle and left atrium

Question 19

Where is the apex situated?

Answer 19

In the left ventricle

Question 20

What chamber view shows the valves really well? (2)

Answer 20

1. 2 chamber view

2. 4 chamber view

Question 21

What is a 4 chamber view?

Answer 21

Coronal view

Question 22

What does the 4 chamber view demonstrate?

Answer 22

The four chambers of the heart

Question 23

What does a 5 chamber view demonstrate?

Answer 23

The four chambers of the heart with the aortic root/ascending aorta leaving the ventricle

Question 24

What can you see really well with the 5 chamber view?

Answer 24

The root of the aorta

Question 25

What does the 3 vessel view demonstrate?

Answer 25

The great vessels leaving/entering the heart
- SVC
- aorta 
- main pulmonary artery 
ductus arteriosus (fetus)

Question 26

What are the 3 vessels in the vessel view?

Answer 26

1. SVC
2. Aorta
3. Pulmonary artery

Question 27

What happens in the ductus arteriosus?

Answer 27

The blood from mom goes into the pulmonary artery

- goes away in adults (only present in fetus’s)

Question 28

What is the view of the short axis (owl view)?

Answer 28

Transverse

- axial

Question 29

What does the short axis demonstrate? (2)

Answer 29

1. The wall of the left and right ventricles

2. Papillary muscles

Question 30

How does the left ventricle look from a short axis view?

Answer 30

Circular

- thick walls

Question 31

How does the right ventricle look from a short axis view?

Answer 31

Half of a moon

- semilunar/crescent shaped

Question 32

Are pulmonary arteries or veins lower?

Answer 32

Pulmonary veins

Question 33

Why cant you see the trachea when you are at the level of the lungs?

Answer 33

Because it has already bifurcated