Chapter 24
Instrument with appearance of a misshapen pancake spatula:
Davidson Scapula Retractor
Incision is not needed in the bronchoscopy procedure:
Incision
What covers the surface of the lungs:
visceral pleura
Collects mucous or bronchial washings:
Lukens Tube
If a VATS procedure needs to go "open" the case turns into a:
Thoracotomy
Number of "True" ribs with direct connection to sternum with costal cartilage:
7
Structure within the respiratory tract that is proximal and superior:
Larynx
Coughing up blood is termed:
hemoptysis
Visible exchange in density on a chest X-ray that indicates pulmonary pathology:
Infiltrate
Any time the pleural cavity is entered:
A chest tube must be placed attached to a pleur-evac system
Lung tissue has this consistency:
Friable
Final branch of respiratory tree is called:
alveoli
How many lobes in the right lung:
three
Thymomas, neurogenic tumors, and pleuropericardial cysts can me biopsied in:
mediastinoscopy
Pain control for a pectus excavatum repair by VATS is completed by:
Epidural
Rigid Bronchoscope would be used in:
Removal of foreign body
Manubrium, body, and xiphoid process are parts of:
sternum
Where does the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide take place:
alveoli
Mediastinoscope scope goes in at the:
Suprasternal Notch
Releasing constriction on the lungs by fibrin layers is:
lung decortication
Nerve that could be damage during a lung decortication:
Phrenic
Heart, Thymus, and esophagus are found:
within the mediastinum
Flow of blood:
right ventricle, pulmonary artery, lungs, pulmonary vein, left atrium
Bleb is a term to describe:
irregular bulge that has the appearance of a blister on the lung
Condition of pus not cleared from the pleural cavity and makes a fibrous constrictive layer:
empyema