Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Cardiac surgery & Cardiology MCQs

 You are assisting the cardiac surgeon in a patient with the x-ray features shown below. This time, it is the surgeon who is running late. He calls into the operating room and asks you to get access to the heart for coronary bypass surgery. What type of incision will you make?

a. Median sternotomy
b. Left thoracotomy
c. Right thoracotomy
d. Clam shell thoracotomy
e. Laparotomy