SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANT Vascular Study Guide
1. Which medicine should be used when handling arteries?: Heparin
2. Which medicine can be used to reverse Heparin at the end of surgery?: -
Protamine Sulfanate
3. Which nerve is the manager of all nerves and innervates the carotid?: -
Glosopharangeal
4. How many miles of blood vessels are in the human body?: 60,000 miles
5. What three circulatory processes occurring in the body simultaneously?-
: systemic, pulmonary and coronary
6. The circuit of vessels supplying oxygenated blood to and returning deoxig-inated blood from
the tissues of the body: Systemic Circulation
7. Transports oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle to the lungs, whereblood picks up a
new blood supply. It then returns the oxygen-rich blood to the left atrium: Pulmonary
Circulation
8. Which organ has the highest consumption by mass of any organ?: Heart
9. Supplies blood to the neck and face: External Carotid
10. Supplies 80% of the blood flow to the brain: Internal Carotid
11. External Carotid artery branches into: Superficial temporal and Maxillaryartery
12. External Carotid artery supplies blood to the: Scalp, face, maxilla, tongue
13. Has no branches in the neck and enters the cranial cavity: Internal Carotid
14. The Internal Carotid arises from the common carotid at the level of the: -
Superior border of the thyroid cartilage
15. Which artery is embedded in the carotid sheath with the internal juggularvein and vagus
nerve: Internal Carotid
16. Internal Carotid artery supplies blood to the: Brain, Nose, Scalp and eye
17. The human heart is roughly the size of a: Large fist
18. The heart weighs between: 10-12 oz in men and 8-10oz in women
19. The heart beats about how many times per day?: 100,000
20. An adult heart beats about how many times per minute: 60-80
21. A newborn's heart beats how much per minute: 70-190 bpm
22. How many quarts of blood does the heart pump throughout the body?: 6
1. Which medicine should be used when handling arteries?: Heparin
2. Which medicine can be used to reverse Heparin at the end of surgery?: -
Protamine Sulfanate
3. Which nerve is the manager of all nerves and innervates the carotid?: -
Glosopharangeal
4. How many miles of blood vessels are in the human body?: 60,000 miles
5. What three circulatory processes occurring in the body simultaneously?-
: systemic, pulmonary and coronary
6. The circuit of vessels supplying oxygenated blood to and returning deoxig-inated blood from
the tissues of the body: Systemic Circulation
7. Transports oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle to the lungs, whereblood picks up a
new blood supply. It then returns the oxygen-rich blood to the left atrium: Pulmonary
Circulation
8. Which organ has the highest consumption by mass of any organ?: Heart
9. Supplies blood to the neck and face: External Carotid
10. Supplies 80% of the blood flow to the brain: Internal Carotid
11. External Carotid artery branches into: Superficial temporal and Maxillaryartery
12. External Carotid artery supplies blood to the: Scalp, face, maxilla, tongue
13. Has no branches in the neck and enters the cranial cavity: Internal Carotid
14. The Internal Carotid arises from the common carotid at the level of the: -
Superior border of the thyroid cartilage
15. Which artery is embedded in the carotid sheath with the internal juggularvein and vagus
nerve: Internal Carotid
16. Internal Carotid artery supplies blood to the: Brain, Nose, Scalp and eye
17. The human heart is roughly the size of a: Large fist
18. The heart weighs between: 10-12 oz in men and 8-10oz in women
19. The heart beats about how many times per day?: 100,000
20. An adult heart beats about how many times per minute: 60-80
21. A newborn's heart beats how much per minute: 70-190 bpm
22. How many quarts of blood does the heart pump throughout the body?: 6
