A 70-year-old man collapsed at home. He was brought into the emergency department in an ambulance. His wife tells you that he complained of sudden lower back pain just before he collapsed. He is pale and hypotensive. You suspect a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. What vertebral level does this affected vessel terminate?
A 50-year-old female is having her central venous pressure (CVP) measured. A long femoral line was inserted that passes from the common iliac vein into the inferior vena cava. At which level of vertebra does this occur?
A 72-year-old female is diagnosed with acute mesenteric ischemia. On CT angiogram, the origin of the superior mesenteric artery is stenosed. At which vertebra level does the superior mesenteric artery branch from the aorta?
Which type of epithelium lines the luminal surface of the oesophagus?
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?
At what site would you palpate to assess the posterior tibial pulse?
Which of the following vertebral levels is the site where the aorta perforates the diaphragm?
Which vessel is the first to branch from the external carotid artery?
Which of these statements is false relating to the posterior cerebral artery?
A 60-year-old man is having his central venous pressure (CVP) measured. A long venous line was inserted via the femoral vein into the right atrium for this purpose. The catheter is advanced through the IVC. Which level of the vertebra is the site where this vessel enters the thorax?