Archives: FRCA Part 1

FCA1-0161

While inspecting the caecum, what structure will be identified at the point at which all the taeniae coli converge?

FCA1-0162

A 25-year-old soldier is shot in the abdomen. He has multiple injuries, including a major disruption to the abdominal aorta. The bleeding is torrential and needs to be controlled by placing a vascular clamp immediately inferior to the diaphragm. During this manoeuvre, which vessel may be injured?

FCA1-0163

What vessel is NOT considered a major branch of the descending thoracic aorta?

FCA1-0164

A patient is being prepped for major bowel surgery. Alice, a final-year medical student, observes the surgery but is asked to scrub in and assist the anaesthetist during intubation. The anaesthetist inserts the laryngoscope and asks Alex to locate the larynx. What anatomical landmark corresponds to the position of the larynx?

FCA1-0157

A laceration to the upper lateral margin of the popliteal fossa will pose the greatest risk of injury for which nerve?

FCA1-0158

Which statement is false in regards to the Circle of Willis?

FCA1-0159

What is NOT a feature of Propofol infusion syndrome?

FCA1-0160

Which of the following vertebral levels is the site where the oesophagus passes through the diaphragm to enter the abdominal cavity?

FCA1-0154

Which type of epithelium lines the luminal surface of the oesophagus?

FCA1-0155

You draw a patient’s blood sample from the median cubital vein in the antecubital fossa. Which of the following veins also connects to the cephalic vein other than the median cubital vein?