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After the initial incision, the surgeon needs to get through the bony areas. He can use a Sternal Saw (breastbone) or Rib Shears. Afterwards he will need to have Sternal or Rib Retractors to hold the area open.
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A tool commonly used to open the chest cavity during surgery is a rib spreader. This device is designed to gently separate the ribs to provide access to the heart and lungs. It is important to use this tool carefully to avoid causing damage to the surrounding structures.
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Surgically created an artificial opening into the chest?
This is known as a thoracostomy or thoracotomy, a surgical procedure to create an opening in the chest wall to access the lungs, heart, or other structures within the chest cavity. It may be performed for diagnostic purposes, to drain fluid or air from the chest, or to perform surgeries on the organs in the chest.
Is a sheet of muscle located beneath the lungs that is used to expand and contrast the chest cavity of mammal?
diaphragm
What Instrument used to spread open a passage or cavity for ease in its examination?
Speculum
In RuneScape what does the muddy key do?
It is used to open the muddy chest
How is laparoscopy used for endometriosis?
a diagnostic tool (to visualize structures in the abdominal cavity and examine them for endometrial growths) and as an operative tool (to excise or destroy endometrial growths).
What is a thoradesis?
A thoradesis is a term used when a procedure is used to remove tissue from the thorax (chest). It is also called a pleurodesis. It can, in effect, remove the pleural cavity.
What is the purpose of the 72-inch sid used for chest x-ray?
IT reduces the size of the heart and thus magnification for better viewing of the heart and other vital anatomy parts in the chest cavity.
What organ separates the ventral body cavity?
Your question is not clear, but the diaphragm is the muscle that divided the abdomen from the thorax (the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity). Ventral is term that is used mostly in veterinary medicine and it refers to the side of the body that has the belly button.
What is petroleum gauze for?
Petroleum gauze is used as an occlusive dressing to seal lacerations or punctures to the abdominal cavity (aka sucking chest wounds) or the neck.
What is a dressing used to create an airtight seal or to close an open wound of a body cavity?
occlusive dressing.
What does the surgical procedure pericardial window achieve?
The Pericardial window is a cardiac surgical procedure used to make a "window" to the pleural cavity. It allows the draining of fluids from the area surrounding the heart into the chest cavity, where the fluids are less dangerous.
What is the medical term meaning chest?
The specific medical abbreviation (prefix and/or root word) that refers to the chest is "pector-" when used in medicine. You also will hear this said in body building and weight training, where the "pecs" abbreviation is used to refer to the chest muscles, the pectoralis major and pectoralis minor muscles.There are many other terms that are also used to refer to the chest in medicine, such as:Thoracic Cavity, also known as the Chest Cavity or Thorax. The Thorax is the section of the body that includes the thoracic vertebrae, sternum, and ribs and contains the heart and lungs in the thoracic cavity.Ventral thorax (the front side of the chest cavity, ventral refers to the front side of the human body.)Torso could also be a word used to refer to the chest, although normally its definition includes everything between the neck and hips (a larger body section than just the Thorax or chest), so it is sometimes clarified as "Upper torso" to mean the chest only.
