Respiratory Flashcards
What structures do ribs attach to?
Vertebral bodies
Sternum
Which two bones are found at the anterior chest?
Manubrium
sternum
How many pairs of ribs?
12
How many true ribs?
1-7
False ribs?
8-10
Floating ribs?
11,12
Why are they called false ribs?
Ribs 8-10 do not attach directly to the sternum
What is the name of the cartilage at the ribs?
Costal cartilage
What is different about the 1st rib?
- Short, wide and flat
- Scalene tubercle
What structures surround the scalene tubercle?
- Scalene muscle
- Subclavian artery- posterior
- Subclavian vein- anterior
Describe a typical thoracic vertebra
- Body is heart shaped
- Intermediate size
- Spinous process is long and thin
- Vertebral foramen
- Intervertebral notch
Which structures pass through the Vertebral foramen?
Spinal cord and meninges
Which is the most inner layer of the meninges?
-Pia mater
Where is the CSF located?
Between the Pia and the Arachnoid
Where does the spinal cord end?
L1-L2
-filum terminale
muscles of inspiration?
External intercostals
diaphragm
Muscles of active expiration?
- Internal intercostals
- abdominals
Accessory muscles of respiration?
- Scalenes
- Sternocleidomastoids
Which intercostal muscles are membranous at the front?
External intercostals
Point down and forward
Which intercostal muscles are membranous at the back?
The internal intercostals
Point down and backward
Describe the innermost intercostal muscles
- same orientation as internal
- only found laterally
What muscles continue the innermost at the back?
Subcostalis muscles
Which muscles continue the innermost at the front?
Transversus thoracis
What is found immediately inferior to each rib?
The VAN
-Vascular bundle
Between which muscles is the VAN
Internal and innermost
Where would you insert a chest drain?
5th intercostal space mid axillary line- point needle down.