Gall Me Maybe
Blocked and Bothered
Duct, Duct...Oops
Spill the Bile
Dead White Men
100
These two structures are the ONLY two structures that should be visualized entering the gallbladder when obtaining the critical view of safety
What are the cystic duct and the cystic artery
100

The most common type of gallstones

What are cholesterol stones

100

During a very difficult lap chole, the IOC shoes good distal filling of the CBD but no filling of the proximal hepatic duct despite changes in the patient position. This is your next step and why

What is convert to an open procedure for concern of having accidently clipped the hepatic duct

100

Relaxation of this sphincter causes bile to enter the duodenum

What is the sphincter of Oddi

100

His "Pentad" can be a late finding in patients with biliary sepsis, and includes alterations in mental status, right upper quadrant pain, fevers, hypotension and jaundice

Who is Benedict Reynolds


200
The named incision made when performing an open cholecystectomy
What is a Kocher incision (right subcostal incision)
200

The gallstone most associated with an infectious process

What are brown pigment stones

200

The most appropriate next step after identifying a hepatic duct transection

What is hepatico-jejunostomy

200

In addition to increasing gallbladder contraction, this GI hormone increases excretion of bile

What is CCK (cholecystokinin, secretin also increases bile excretion)

200

This German anatomist claimed to be the first to describe the main pancreatic duct. This claim later got him shot and killed!

Who is Johann Georg Wirsung

300

The location of the vascular supply to the common bile duct

What are 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock

300

The gallstones associated with hemolysis

What are black pigment stones

300

These are the 2 most common causes of shock post cholecystectomy

What is hemorrhagic shock from a clip falling off cystic artery, and later septic shock due to cholangitis from clipping of the common bile duct

300
This is where active resorption of conjugated bile occurs
What is the terminal ileum
300

This French Surgeon is credited with the description of the segmental anatomy of the liver in his seminal work Le Foie

Who is Clauid Couinaud


400
The most common vascular structure unintentionally injured during a laparoscopic cholecystectomy
What is the Right Hepatic Artery
400

The most common bacteria associated with pigment stones

What is E. coli

400

POD 7 lap chole's RUQ U/S shows 8x8cm fluid collection and this is the appropriate course of action.

What is percutaneous drainage

400

These are the two breakdown products of conjugated bilirubin that give rise to the pigment in urine and stool

What are Stercobilin (in stool) and urobilin (in urine)

400

This German anatomist is credited with describing this biliary variant. Careful! Failure to recognize it can lead to bile in your surgical drain!

Who is Hubert von Luschka

500

Dissection ventral to this sulcus is another safety precaution takin when performing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy because it can reliably simulate the plane of the right hepatic duct

What is Rouviere's Sulcus

500
In obese patients, this overactive enzyme is the thought to be the cause of cholesterol stones
What is HMGCoA reductase
500

An identified clip fell off the cystic duct post lap chole. this is the approriate management

What is ERCP, Sphincterotomy and temporary stent placement

500

This is the virus most commonly associated with acalculous cholecystitis

What is CMV

500

This American Surgeon, not yet deceased, first coined the term "The Critical View of Safety," for teaching safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Who is Steven Strasberg