Help Me Term 2 Crash Part 3 Flashcards
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The apex of the heart is mainly supplied by which artery?
Which neural structures are found in the superior mediastinum? (4)
Left recurrent laryngeal nerve
Phrenic nerve
Vagus nerve
Cardiac plexus
Which nerve functions to decrease the heart rate and force of cardiac contraction?
Vagus
Which other nerve plexus besides the pulmonary plexus has branches in the superior mediastinum?
Cardiac plexus
What’s the cardiac plexus, and formed from which nervous systems
Network of autonomic nerves and ganglia situated at the base of the heart
It is formed by cardiac branches derived from both the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
Which nerve supplies the para going to the heart?
V
Which structure functions to increase the heart rate and force of contraction?
Sympathetic trunk
What hormones are released by the sympathetic nervous system to increase HR and force of contraction?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Hiccups- surgical irritation of which nerve
Phrenic
Which nerve innervates fibrous and parietal serous layers of the pericardium?
Phrenic nerve
Mostly pain
Which nervous structure at the base of the heart is formed by both sympathetic and parasympathetic cardiac branches?
Cardiac plexus
Tumour infiltration of which ganglion leads to hornets
Cervicothoracic ganglion
Left common carotid cones from what?
Aortic arch
Which blood vessels drain oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium?
Left pulmonary veins
Which vessels runs transversely along the posterior surface of the heart in the coronary sulcus?
Coronary sinus
Which heart Chamber comprises majority of anterior surface of the heart?
Right ventricle
On a CXR, which is the smallest and most inferior convexity of the heart on the right side?
Inferior vena cava
Apex of heart hidden by diaphragm in CXR?
Yes
Which artery runs down the anterior Interventricular sulcus to the cardiac apex where it anastomoses with the posterior interventricular artery?
Anterior interventricular artey
Left atrium = base
Ysh
Which vessels governs Veinous drainage of the heart?
Coronary sinus
The brachiocephalic trunk comes from where
Aortic arch
From which part of the aorta do the coronary arteries arise?
Ascending aorta
Guy stabbed at 5th intercostal space. Left of sternum What structure is most likely to have been injured?
Right ventricle of the heart