Thoracic Wall and Lungs
Heart & Mediastinum
Neck & Spine
Skull, Brain, Cranial Nerves
Back, spinal cord, vasculature of the brain
100

What type of joints are the sternocostal joints?

synovial

100

Where would you auscultate the Aortic semilunar valve on a patient?

In the 2nd intercostal space on the right side

100

What is contained within the carotid sheath?

common carotid artery, internal jugular vein, and vagus nerve
100

Which nerve is responsible for somatic sensation of the anterior 2/3 of the tongue?

Trigeminal (CNV3) (mandibular)

100

What part of the brain does the middle cerebral artery supply?

lateral parts of frontal and parietal lobes

200
What artery runs vertically down the internal thoracic wall giving off branches that supply the anterior wall?

Internal thoracic artery

200

Right and left coronary dominance is defined by the vessel that gives rise to which artery?

Posterior interventricular artery

200

What are the branches off the external carotid artery? (8)

Superior thyroid, lingual, facial, occipital, posterior auricular, ascending pharyngeal (don't really need to know), maxillary, superficial temporal

200

Describe the path of cerebrospinal fluid

1. choroid plexus in lateral ventricle

2. interventricular foramen

3. 3rd ventricle

4. cerebral aqueduct

5. 4th ventricle

6. median and lateral apertures

7. subarachnoid space or central canal

8. arachnoid granulations

9. dural venous sinuses

10. superior sagittal sinus



200
What artery in the brain is the most common place to have a cerebral aneurysm?

anterior communicating artery

300

What muscles assist in forced inspiration?

primary: external intercostals, diaphragm

accessory: SCM, scalenes, pec major, pec minor, serratus anterior, serratus posterior superior

300
Explain the Lubb (S1) and Dubb (S2) sounds

S1: closure of the AV valves (tricuspid and bicuspid)

S2: closure of the semilunar valves

300

What is the clinical significance of the retropharyngeal space

can expand due to abcess or infection that restricts swallowing/breathing

and route for spread of infection into mediastinum

300

What kind of hematoma would most likely result from a ruptured middle meningeal artery?

epidural hematoma

300

A 56-year-old man presents with a history of pain for the last 12 months radiating down the posterior aspect of the thigh and leg. A radiographic examination reveals a herniated disc between the L5 and the S1 vertebral levels. Which of the following nerves is most likely affected by this herniated disc?

S1

400
What is the function of the conducting pathway of the lungs?

warm/humidify air

400

Which step of the cardiac cycle are the coronary arteries maximally perfused?

Early ventricular diastole

400

What is Torticollis and how does it present?

contracture or shortening of SCM

Neck is laterally flexed and contralaterally rotated (SCM functions)

400

Damage to which cranial nerve would result in a loss of ability to elevate the scapula and laterally flex the neck?

Spinal accessory nerve CN XI

400

Primary blood supply to medial aspects of frontal and parietal lobes?

anterior cerebral artery

500

Explain thoracic outlet syndrome

3 types

clavicle caused: pinched neurovasculature at the costoclavicular space

scalene caused: pinched neurovasculature from scalenes

pec minor caused: pinching under pec minor

500

Describe cardiac tamponade

If extensive pericardial effusion exists, compromised volume of the sac does not allow full expansion of heart which limits how much blood the heart can receive --> reduces cardiac output

veins of face and neck become engorged because of the backup of the blood

500

Explain Horner's syndrome

Compression of sympathetic chain

Ptosis: drooping of eyelid due to lack of tone of smooth muscle of eyelid

miosis: constricted pupil

anhidrosis: lack of sweating

500

Damage to what nerve would result in loss of pupillary constriction?

CN II

500

innervation to the deep intrinsic back mucles?

dorsal rami