Archives: Medical Student Years 1-3

MS-0378

A 47-year-old woman is recuperating in the ICU after undergoing a Whipples surgery. She has a central venous line inserted. What will cause the ‘y’ descent on the waveform trace?

MS-0379

A 67-year-old man is scheduled for surgery to treat transitional cell carcinoma of the left kidney. During the procedure, the surgeon needs to locate and dissect the left renal artery. Can you identify the vertebral level where the origin of this artery can be found?

MS-0380

A man in his 50s arrives at the emergency department exhibiting signs of a stroke. After undergoing a CT angiogram, it is revealed that there is a constriction in the artery that provides blood to the right common carotid.

What is the name of the affected artery?

MS-0381

Which one of the following statements relating to the basilar artery and its branches is false?

MS-0382

During the repair of an atrial septal defect, the surgeons notice blood leakage from the coronary sinus. What is the largest tributary of the coronary sinus?

MS-0383

A 76-year-old male comes for his yearly checkup with the heart failure nurses. What is the leading cause of heart failure?

MS-0384

A 52-year-old man comes to the emergency department complaining of severe crushing chest pain that spreads to his left arm and jaw. He also feels nauseous. Upon conducting an ECG, you observe ST-segment elevation in several chest leads and diagnose him with ST-elevation MI. From which vessel do the coronary vessels arise?

MS-0385

A 15-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department by air ambulance following a fight. He presents with peripheral shutdown and an unrecordable blood pressure. The chest X-ray reveals a stab wound that has penetrated the left atrium and the artery that supplies it. Which artery is the most likely to have been affected?

MS-0386

Which one of the following is typically not provided by the right coronary artery?