Shark Attack

Shark Attack

(Summarizing and Note-taking)

Read the story on this website: http://www.sciencecases.org/shark/shark.asp

Answer the following questions:

1. Identify at least five organ systems in this region of the arm that the surgeon would have marked for reattachment.

Circulatory, skeletal, lymphatic, nervous, integumentary and muscular.

2. List the names of the specific structures that had to be reattached.

Humerous, biceps, triceps, and tendons

3. What organ system was most likely not reattached? Explain.

Lymphatic, because the vessels are small and hard to find.

4. Why was a clean bite so important?

A clean bite was so important because everything was pretty much just chopped and the tissue wasn’t shredded which would have been extremely hard to fix.

5. Why was the bone shortened?

They had to trim the bone in order to place the plate on each part of his arm so they could reattach it.

6. Identify the movements associated with the arm, forearm, wrist, and fingers.

The movements associated with the arm, forearm, wrist, and fingers are probably the most important of anything in your body because it’s how you pick things up and move them and write and pretty much everything you do is dependant on your arm.

7. Explain how the movements of the reattached arm might be altered after the reattachment.

He may not be able to move all of his fingers the same way or his forearm very well. His wrist may also be hard to move easily. This is all due to the fact that it is put back together, nothing will work perfectly because his arm is not perfectly fine like it was when he was born.

8. Define collateral circulation and identify the regions of collateral circulation that would be found in the upper extremity.

Collateral circulation is when an area of tissue or an organ has a number of different pathways for blood to reach it.

9. Identify the specific vessels that provide the...