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A 1-day-old girl with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) has severe respiratory distress and requires Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support. Which of the following is the reason(s) for this?

A patient lives in a jurisdiction where physician assisted suicide is legal. She seeks a prescription for medication to end her life. Which of the following includes the requirements for this to be permitted?

Which rib articulates at the location marked by the arrow?  

Identify the structure at the tip of the red arrows.  

Identify the structure (at the tips of the red arrows) that forms an impression of the upper lobe of the left lung.  

The bronchogram of a 49-year-old male smoker showed the presence of a tumor in the eparterial bronchus. Which airway is most likely blocked?

A newborn baby is found to be drooling excessively and chokes immediately on being fed. A nasogastric tube is passed and does not pass below 8 cm. On abdominal x-ray, there is air noted in the stomach and intestines. Which of the following is the most likely defect?

The foramens at the tip of the red arrows are between what processes of typical vertebrae.  

A patient is in the intensive care unit who lacks capacity for medical decision-making. Her health care surrogate, her adult daughter, asks the attending physician about palliative sedation, as she is approaching the end of her life and her pain is becoming more severe. The patient has no past history of addiction, but her daughter does not want her to receive ongoing opioid treatment. Which of the following would be the best response from the attending physician?

A 67-year-old man presents to the clinic with one week of fever, productive cough, pain with deep breathing over the left posterior chest wall, and shortness of breath. On physical exam, there is dullness to percussion over the left posterior lung fields to the level of the inferior scapula along with decreased tactile fremitus and diminished breath sounds in that same area. The left upper lobe and entire right lung are clear to auscultation. What finding would be expected to be seen on the chest x-ray?