SF3 Exam 1 Flashcards
Which ribs are true ribs?
1-7
Which are false ribs?
8-12
What ribs are palpable?
2-10
Where is the nipple located?
4th intercostal space
Explain how ribs connect in the area of the vertebrae
They connect between vertebra with the bottom vertebra being the corresponding number of the rib. Ex) Rib 6 has T5 above it and T6 below it
What makes up the costal marigin?
Ribs 8-10
What Sets of vertical lines exist on the body?
Ant. Median Line (AML) (down sternum) Midclavicular line (MCL) Ant. Axillary line (AAL) Midaxillary line (MAL) Post. Axillary Line (PAL)
What events happen at the sternal angle?
1) Rib 2 articulates w/ sternum
2) Arch of aorta above angle, ascending and descending aorta below angle
3) Level of T4-T5 intervertebral disc
4) Separates Superior and Inferior mediastina
5) Superior extent of fibrous pericardium
6) trachea divides into main bronchi
7) Azygous vein enters sup. vena cava
Where do you insert a chest tube for a thoracostomy?
In what order are the structures you pass through during insertion?
between Ant. Axillary line and midaxillary line in the 4th/5th intercostal space near the TOP of the intercostal space to avoid the nerve.
1) serratus ant
2) External intercostals
3) Internal intercostals
4) Innermost intercostals
5) Endothoracic fascia
Where is the neurovascular bundle located in the ribs?
between internal and innermost muscle layers
What is the order of structures in the costal groove
Top to bottom VAN
vein
artery
nerve most at risk
Where are the transversus thoracis muscles?
Attach from sternum/xiphoid to costal cartilage. Ribs 3-6.
What is the blood supply to posterior intercostals?
Mostly thoracic Aorta
1 and 2 come from costocervical trunk
What is the blood supply to anterior intercostals?
Upper 6- Internal thoracic artery
7-9- musculophrenic artery
None in 10-11
Explain the venous drainage of posterior intercostal space.
Azygous (right) and accessory hemiazygous and hemiazygous (left)
Explain the venous drainage of anterior intercostal space.
internal thoracic and musculophrenic veins
What type of innervations so intercostal nerves carry?
1) somatic motor to thoracic wall
2) somatic sensory to skin and parietal pleura
3) postganglionic sympathetic to periphery
What are the types of pleura involved with the lung? Explain location and give any subsectional names too.
Visceral pleura- directly attached to lung
Parietal pleura- forms from coelomic membrane. has subsections of mediastinal, cervical, costal, and diaphragmatic pleura depending on location. Is just deep to the endothoracic fascia. Other side is the pleural cavity.
Where would you drain fluid from the lungs?
Costodiaphragmatic Recesses. The lung does NOT enter here.
Inferior borders of the parietal pleura for the lung?
MCL- rib 8
MAL-rib 10
Posterior- T12
Inferior borders for lungs?
MCL- rib 6
MAL- rib 8
Posterior- T10
Superior border of lungs?
1 inch above costal cartilage of rib 1
What is the cardiac notch. How does it effect the lungs?
Left lung goes to rib 4, then had a notch in it that curves to rib 6.