Nerv-OUS
What is nerve is blocked to blunt pain during IV regional neural anesthesia?
Intercostobrachial
What are the four muscles that make up the rotator cuff and what are there functions?
Infraspinatous: Lateral rotation
Subscapularis: Medial rotation and adduction
Teres Minor: Lateral rotation
Fracture to the medial epicondyle can cause injury to what nerve?
Why is the shoulder commonly dislocated?
Anatomically disproportionate, provides a lot of complex movement. multiple muscles make up this joint
What nerve is not in the cubital fossa?
Ulnar
Damage to what causes Erb-Duchenne palsy?
BONUS: what does it look like and what are some causes?
Superior trunk
Axillary nerve, musculocutaneous, suprascapular
Pulling on the neck for delivery, or fallen on shoulder
"Waiters tip position"
What is the function of the lumbricals?
Flex the fingers at the metacarpophalangeal joints an extend the interphalangeal joints
What two bones make up the saddle joint in the hand?
1st metacarpal and the trapezium
A patient fractures the lateral epicondyle what nerve could be effected?
Radial
Teres Major
What is the difference in Kalumpke palsy and ulnar nerve injury?
The ulnar nerve causes a claw hand deformity often caused by unsupported elbow on OR table. Kalumpke is injury to the inferior truck occurring when the arm is pulled suddenly in delivery of newborn or someone trying to Catch themselves from falling.
What muscle in the flexor region is not supplied by the median nerve?
Flexor carpi ulnas
What bone is the only horizontal bone in the body?
Horizontal
A new graduate nurse is attempting to draw blood from the patients AC. why should he limit the amount of times he probs in that area?
Could cause injury to the median nerve leading to atrophy of the thenar muscles
What fibers are present in the white and grey rami?
White: Preganglionic
Grey: Postganglionic
If a patient is complaining of numbness on the lateral surface of the shoulder after dislocation of his shoulder and now he cannot move his arm between 15-90 degrees what nerve could be injured?
Axillary
A patient arrives to the ER via EMS for a stab wound to the left chest under the armpit. What potential injury can occur?
paralysis of the serrates anterior due to injury to the long thoracic nerve
The Supraspinatus, teres minor, and infraspinatus all distal attach to what bony prominence?
Greater Tubercle
a young child comes into the ER with a hyper flexed distal phalangeal joint from trying to catch a basketball. what is the name of this injury?
Mallet finger
What is PAD and DAB
PAD: palmar interosseous muscles adduct the fingers
DAB: Dorsal interosseous muscles abduct the fingers
A frequent flyer in the ER has arrived with the inability to extend his wrist (stuck in a flexed position) after waking up from blacking out, what nerve could be injured?
Radial nerve
Saturday night palsy
Injury to what muscle causes the inability to rotate and retract the shoulder joint?
Rhomboid minor and major
Your patient has arrived into the ER with sever unrelenting pain in the wrist after following a fall. X-rays are all normal with no appearance of a fracture what could be going on?
Fracture of the scaphoid causing no blood flow to the bone creating necrosis which will need an operation.
A baseball player is constantly complaining of shoulder pain originating at the apex of the deltoid radiating to the neck. What is the possible diagnosis?
how many cervical vertebra and cervical nerves
7,8