DTCC SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY TOTAL EXAM REVIEW FOR CERTIFICATION
GUIDE WITH 264 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS BEST GRADED A+, RECENT UPDATE
2023-2024
GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX (GERD)
Answer: NISSEN FUNDOPLICATION IS PERFORMED TO TREAT THIS
NISSEN FUNDOPLICATION
Answer: WRAPPING THE FUNDUS OF THE STOMACH AROUND THE ESOPHAGUS TO
TREAT GERD
SUBARACHNOID SPACE
Answer: A LUMBAR PUNCTURE REMOVES CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID FROM
SHOCK
Answer: HAS A SYMPTOM OF COLD, CLAMMY SKIN
BABCOCK
Answer: IS AN ATRAUMATIC CLAMP
MIOTIC DROPS
Answer: ARE AN OPHTHALMIC MEDICATION THAT CAUSES PUPILS TO CONSTRICT
MYDRIATIC DROPS
Answer: ARE AN AOPHTHAMIC MEDICATION THAT CAUSES TEMPORARY
PARALYSIS OF THE EYE CAUSING THE PUPILS TO REMAIN DILATED
LEFORT I
Answer: HORIZONTAL MAXILLARY FRACTURE SEPARATING TEETH FROM THE
UPPER FACE
LEFORT II
Answer: A FRACTURE OF THE FRONTAL PROCESS OF THE MAXILLA. NASAL BONES
AND ORBITAL FLOOR
LEFORT III
Answer: SEPARATION OF ALL FACIAL BONES FROM THEIR CRANIAL BASE.
INCLUDES ZYGOMATIC, MAXILLA, AND NASAL BONES
LITHOTRIPSY
Answer: CRUSHING URINARY STONES
MARSHALL MARCHETTI
Answer: A PROCEDURE PERFORMED TO CORRECT URINARY INCONTINENCE
AMPULLA OF VATER
Answer: THE CBD (COMMON BILE DUCT) JOINS THE DUODENUM AT THIS
JUNCTURE
BOVIE TIP
Answer: IS WHERE ACTIVE ELECTRODES ARE LOCATED IN A MONOPOLAR UNIT
GIA
Answer: GASTROINTESTINAL ANASTOMOSIS STAPLER THAT PRODUCES A DOUBLE
STAGGERED ROW OF STAPLES AND CUTS THROUGH TISSUE
SURGICAL GUT SUTURE
Answer: A TYPE OF SUTURE THAT LOSES TENSILE STRENGTH IN 5 TO 10 DAYS
TRENDELENBURG
Answer: PATIENT IS SUPINE WITH HEAD LOWER THAN FEET
REVERSE TRENDELENBURG
Answer: PATIENT IS SUPINE WITH FEET LOWER THAN HEAD
*FOOTBOARD MAY BE REQUIRED
POSITION FOR CESAREAN SECTION
Answer: SUPINE WITH RIGHT SIDE SLIGHTLY ELEVATED
VALENCE SHELL
Answer: THE PATHWAY THAT ELECTRONS FOLLOW AROUND A NUCLEUS
RATIO
Answer: RELATIONSHIP THAT ONE PROPERTY OR MEASUREMENT HAS TO
ANOTHER 1:100,000
LYMPHAZURIN
Answer: SURGEONS INJECT THIS DURING A SETINEL NODE BIOPSY IN ORDER TO
VISUALIZE AFFECTED AREAS
PALATINE TONSILS
Answer: STRUCTURES REMOVED DURING A TONSILLECTOMY
FIRST DEGREE BURNS
Answer: EPIDERMIS ONLY IS HARMED
SECOND DEGREE BURNS
Answer: EPIDERMIS AND DERMIS ARE HARMED
THIRD DEGREE BURNS
Answer: BURN IS OF FULL THICKNESS. ALL LAYERS ARE HARMED
EPIPHYSIS
Answer: PROXIMAL ENDS OF LONG BONES
DIAPHYSIS
Answer: SHAFT OF A LONG BONE
OSCILLATING SAW
Answer: SAW USED IN LIMB AMPUTATION
KELLER PROCEDURE
Answer: IS USED TO CORRECT HALLUX VALGUS
MYOPIA
Answer: NEARSIGHTEDNESS
HYPEROPIA
Answer: FARSIGHTEDNESS
LIGAMENTS
Answer: CONNECT BONE TO BONE
TENDONS
Answer: CONNECT MUSCLES TO BONES
VOLVULUS
Answer: TWISTING OF THE BOWELS
LUGOLS SOLUTION
Answer: AN AGENT USED TO IDENTIFY DISEASED TISSUE IN THE CERVIX
HYDROCELECTOMY
Answer: THE SURGICAL REMOVAL OF A FLUID FILLED SAC IN THE TUNICA
VAGINALIS
PROJECTING JAW
Answer: PROGNATHISM OR PROTRUDING LOWER JAW
MICROTIA
Answer: TINY EARS. CAN BE CORRECTED WITH OTOPLASTY
LEFT HYPOCHONDRIAC REGION
Answer: LOCATION OF SPLEEN
RIGHT HYPOCHONDRIAC REGION
Answer: LOCATION OF LIVER AND GALL BLADDER
EPIGASTRIC REGION
Answer: STOMACH
9 ANATOMICAL REGIONS
Answer: EPIGASTRIC, UMBILICAL, HYPOGASTRIC, LEFT HYPOCHONDRIAC, LEFT
HYPOCHODRIAC, RIGHT ILIAC AND LEFT ILIAC
-RRHEXIS
Answer: MEDICAL TERM MEANING RUPTURE
-PEXY
Answer: MEDICAL TERM MEANING TO FIXATE OR PUT IN PROPER PLACEMENT
-RRHAGIA
Answer: MEDICAL TERM MEANING BURSTING FORTH WITH BLOOD
-RRHAPHY
Answer: MEDICAL TERM MEANING TO SUTURE OR REPAIR
PANCREAS
Answer: THE GLAND THAT IS BOTH ENDOCRINE & EXOCRINE
DANTROLENE
Answer: MEDICATION TO TREAT MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA
PHASES OF WOUND HEALING
Answer: INFLAMMATION, PROLIFERATION, MATURATION
POLYGALCTIN 910
Answer: VICRYL SUTURE
POLIGLECAPRONE 25
Answer: MONOCRYL SUTURE
HARMONIC SCALPEL
Answer: DEVICE USING ULTRASONIC ENERGY TO CUT AND COAGULATE
SIMULTANEOUSLY
BILLROTH I
Answer: GASTRODUODENOSTOMY
BILLROTH II
Answer: GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY
BILLROTH III
Answer: ESOPHAGUS CONNECTS TO JEJUNUM
LAPAROSCOPY
Answer: ENDOSCOPIC VISUALIZATION OF THE PERITONEAL CAVITY
SHOULDER
Answer: THE ROTATOR CUFF IS LOCATED IN...
ANAEROBIC
Answer: BACTERIA THAT LIVE BEST IN AREAS WITH LITTLE OR NO OXYGEN
PUTTI-PLATT PROCEDURE
Answer: IS TO CORRECT RECURRENT ANTERIOR SHOULDER DISLOCATION
GALEA
Answer: IS LOCATED IN THE SCALP
VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE
Answer: IS THE EIGHTH CRANIAL NERVE
VAGUS NERVE
Answer: IS CRANIAL NERVE X
RUNNING STITCH
Answer: CONTINUOUS SUTURE
MAYO NEEDLE
Answer: CLOSED EYED
PENROSE DRAIN
Answer: IS USED TO RETRACT THE VAS DEFERENS IN INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR IS
USED TO RETRACT THE SPERMATIC CORD IN INGUINAL REPAIR
HESSELBACH'S TRIANGLE
Answer: IS THE MOST COMMON SITE FOR HERNIA FORMATION
CARBON DIOXIDE
Answer: THE GAS USED TO CREATE PNEUMOPERITONEUM
SIMPLE MASTECTOMY
Answer: INVOLVES REMOVAL OF BREAST TISSUE WITHOUT LYMPH NODE
DISSECTION
SEMI-FOWLERS
Answer: POSITION FOR PATIENT DURING EXCISION OF ZENKER'S DIVERTICULUM
ZENKER'S DIVERTICULUM
Answer: AN OUTPOUCHING OF THE POSTERIOR HYPOPHARYNX. CAUSES SEVERE
BAD BREATH
HCG -HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN
Answer: HORMONE THAT BECOMES PRESENT IN AS LITTLE AS 10 DAYS AFTER
CONCEPTION
HEPARIN
Answer: IS AN ANTICOAGULANT
PROTAMINE SULFATE
Answer: REVERSES THE EFFECTS OF HEPARIN
JACKSON PRATT DRAIN
Answer: IS A CLOSED VACUUM DRAIN
HOLMIUM: YAG
Answer: LASER MOST LIKELY USED IN CONJUCTION WITH A CYSTOSCOPE
ATELECTASIS
Answer: COLLAPSED LUNG
SHOULDER PAIN
Answer: IS THE MOST COMMON COMPLAINT AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY
EXAGGERATED LITHOTOMY
Answer: THE POSITION OF THE PATIENT UNDERGOING A PERINEAL
PROSTATECTOMY
CALDWELL LUC
Answer: CREATION OF A NASOANTRAL WINDOW IN THE MAXILLARY BONE TO
REMOVE DISEASED TISSUE AND DRAIN SINUSES
ADAPTIC
Answer: AN EXAMPLE OF NONADHERENT DRESSING
TALIPES EQUINOVARUS
Answer: CLUB FOOT
SPICA
Answer: A TYPE OF CAST APPLIED UNILATERALLY FROM WAIST TO TOES ON
AFFECTED SIDE AND WAIST TO KNEE ON THE UNAFFECTED SIDE TO ENSURE
IMMOBILITY
ELLIK
Answer: A DOUBLE BOWL SHAPED GLASS EVACUATOR USED IN BLADDER
SURGERY
CILIA
Answer: HAIRLIKE EXTENSIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR MOVEMEN OF FLUID AROUND
CELLS
HYOID BONE
Answer: THE ONLY BONE IN THE BODY THAT DOES NOT ARTICULATE WITH
ANOTHER BONE OFTEN BROKEN DURING STRANGULATION
TRICUSPID VALVE
Answer: VALVE SEPARATING RIGHT ATRIUM FROM RIGHT VENTRICLE
BICUSPID VALVE
Answer: VALVE SEPARATING LEFT ATRIUM FROM LEFT VENTRICLE
INDUCTION
Answer: THE FIRST PHASE OF GENERAL ANESTHESIA
EXPOSURE TIME, BIOBURDEN PRESENT, PH
Answer: FACTORS INFLUENCING CHEMICAL DISINFECTION
WILSON FRAME
Answer: A POSITIONING DEVICE FOR MODIFIED PRONE POSITION. MINIMAL
PRESSURE ON CHEST/ABDOMEN
PROLENE
Answer: NON-ABSORBABLE, SYNTHETIC MONOFILAMENT SUTURE
WEITLANER
Answer: A SELF RETAINING RETRACTOR NOT COMMONLY FOUND ON A D&C
INSTRUMENT SET
SPINA BIFIDA
Answer: CONGENITAL DEFECT WHERE VERTEBRAE DON'T CLOSE LEAVING THE
SPINAL CORD UNPROTECTED
VAN BUREN
Answer: A URETHRAL SOUND
WHIPPLE PROCEDURE
Answer: DONE AS A LAST RESORT EFFORT FOR THOSE WITH PANCREATIC CANCER
ANOTHER NAME FOR PANCREATICODUODENETOMY
ANECTINE
Answer: DEPOLARIZING MUSCLE RELAXANT
BAKERS CYST
Answer: ARE FOUND IN THE POPLITEAL FOSSA
PFANNENSTIEL INCISION
Answer: COMMONLY USED FOR CESAREAN SECTIONS
USING OPEN ENDED SENTENCES
Answer: A COMPONENT OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
POSTAURAL
Answer: COMMON APPROACH FOR A SIMPLE MASTOIDECTOMY
REMOVING INFECTION FROM THE EAR
DRILL, MEASURE, TAP, SCREW
Answer: STEPS TAKEN FOR SCREW PLACEMENT INTO BONE
HOMOGRAFT (ALLOGRAFT)
Answer: CADAVER BONE/TISSUE
HETEROGRAFT
Answer: TISSUE FROM ANOTHER SPECIES (PIG, COW, PORCINE)
AUTOGRAFT
Answer: GRAFT TAKEN FROM PATIENT TO BE USED IN A DIFFERENT PART OF
HIS/HER OWN BODY
PDS
Answer: POLYDIOXANONE ABSORBABLE, SYNTHETIC, MONOFILAMENT SUTURE
POLYDIOXANONE (PDS)
Answer: USED FOR SLOW HEALING WOUNDS WHERE THERE IS NEED FOR WOUND
SUPPORT
CHEYNE-STOKES RESPIRATION
Answer: IRREGULAR BREATHING DUE TO APNEA OR HYPERPNEA
TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY
Answer: PROCEDURE PERFORMED IN LATERAL POSITION
CLASS I
Answer: CONTAMINATED CASE : INFECTION RATE OF 15-20%
FAR SIDE
Answer: SIDE OF A STERILE WRAPPER THAT IS OPENED FIRST
SCHIOTZ TONOMETER
Answer: MEASURES INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE
RETINAL DETACHMENT
Answer: WHEN THE RETINA SEPARATES FROM THE CHOROID
ENDOMETRIUM
Answer: INNERMOST LAYER OF THE UTERUS
UNBROKEN SKIN
Answer: THE BODY'S FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST INFECTION
MOIST LAPS
Answer: SHOULD BE PLACES AROUND TARGET TISSUE TO REDUCE RISK OF A FIRE
DURING LASER USE
PERMANENT SPECIMENS
Answer: ARE SENT TO PATHOLOGY IN 10% FORMALIN
LEFT SUBCLAVIAN VEIN
Answer: IS WHERE THE THORACIC LYMPHATIC DUCT DRAINS
SODIUM BICARBONATE
Answer: IS GIVEN TO COMBAT METABOLIC ACIDOSIS
METABOLIC ACIDOSIS
Answer: LOW PH IN THE BLOOD
BACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILIS
Answer: SPORE BACTERIA THAT ARE USED IN BIOLOGICAL INDICATOR FOR
STEAM STERILIZATION
BACILLUS SUBTILIS
Answer: BACTERIA USED IN BIOLOGICAL INDICATOR FOR EO STERILIZATION
STEPS IN PREPPING
Answer: PREP CLEAN AREA FIRST, WORKING IN TOWARDS THE DIRTY AREA.
CLEAN DIRTIEST AREA LAST
ROTATION
Answer: IN ROBOTICS ROLL REFERS TOMICROINSTRUMENTATION
Answer: HAS A DULL FINISH
HEPATITIS B
Answer: IS A VIRUS
MASSETER MUSCLE
Answer: IS USED WHEN CHEWING
DAVIDSON RETRACTOR
Answer: IS A THORACIC RETRACTOR
MIOCHOL
Answer: MEDICATION USED AFTER EYE SURGERY TO RAPIDLY CONSTRICT PUPILS
LEYLA-YASERGIL RETRACTOR
Answer: IS USED IN NEUROSURGERY
LOWMAN FORCEP
Answer: IS A BONE HOLDING FORCEP
IMPOTENCE
Answer: POSSIBLE COMPLICATION OF A RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY
WILMS TUMOR
Answer: OCCURS IN THE KIDNEY
MIDLINE INCISION
Answer: IS MADE BETWEEN THE LEFT AND RIGHT ABDOMINIS MUSCLES, DOWN
THE LINEA ALBA AND AROUND THE UMBILICUS
POSTERIOR EXENTERATION
Answer: WERTHEIM PROCEDURE WITH ABDOMINOPERITNEAL RESECTION
TRUST VS MISTRUST
Answer: OCCURS AT 0-1 YEARS OLD ACCORDING TO ERICKSON'S
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
CAAHEP
Answer: AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATION FOR ALLIED HEALTH PROGRAMS.
COMMISSION ON ACCREDITATION OF ALLIED HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS
YEAST
Answer: IS THE CAUSITIVE ELEMENT OF THRUSH
IATROGENIC INJURY
Answer: INJURY SUSTAINED BY A PATIENT DUE TO ACTIVITY OF A HEALTH CARE
PROVIDER
PACU
Answer: AREA WHERE SURGICAL PATIENTS RECOVER AFTER SURGERY
STERNAL CLOSURES
Answer: SURGICAL STAINLESS STEEL IS USED IN
BLUNT NEEDLE
Answer: IS USED ON THE LIVER
ROOM TEMPERATURE WATER
Answer: IS USED FOR A PLASTER CASTAPPLICATION
PURSE STRING SUTURE
Answer: IS USED TO CLOSE AN APPENDIX STUMP
FESS
Answer: IS SINUS SURGERY
FUNCTIONAL ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY
RHOTONS
Answer: ARE USED IN NEUROSURGERY
ARACHNOID
Answer: IS THE MIDDLE LAYER OF THE MENINGES
-MALACIA
Answer: IS A MEDICAL TERM MEANING "SOFTENING"
TETANY
Answer: CAN BE CAUSED BY REMOVING THE PARATHYROID GLANDS.
CONSTANT MUSCLE CONTRACTION
THYMUS GLAND
Answer: IS THE GLAND THT HELPS DEVELOP THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
COLLES FRACTURES
Answer: OCCUR IN THE WRIST
OFTEN IN THE ELDERLY ATTEMPTING TO BREAK A FALL "SILVER FORK
FRACTURE"
SAPHENOUS VEIN
Answer: IS THE IN-SITU VEIN USED FOR FEMORAL POPLITEAL BYPASS
POTTS SMITH SCISSORS
Answer: ARE USED TO EXTEND ARTERIOTOMIES
CIRCLE OF WILLS
Answer: IS THE SITE COMMON FOR CEREBRAL ANEURYSM
MALIGNANT BONE TUMOR
Answer: OSTEOSARCOMA
Z-PLASTY
Answer: MAY BE PERFORMED TO CORRECT DUPUYTREN'S CONTRACTURE OF THE
HAND
VERRUCA
Answer: WART
COCAINE
Answer: MAY BE USED IN ENT PROCEDURES
GRANULATION
Answer: SCAR TISSUE CAUSED BY FIBROUS COLLAGEN
ETHYLENE OXIDE
Answer: 2-3 HOURS REQUIRED FOR STERILIZATION
TUBEX
Answer: A METAL OR PLASTIC DEVICE THAT HOLDS A CARPULE OF MEDICATION
CARPULE
Answer: A GLASS VIAL CONTAINING MEDICATION. USED IN CONJUCTION WITH A
TUBEX FOR INJECTION INTO THE PATIENT
PARAAnswer: BESIDE
FIRST INTENTION WOUND HEALING
Answer: SUTURING A CLEAN WOUND CLOSED
SECOND INTENTION WOUND HEALING
Answer: WOUND ALLOWED TO HEAL W/O SUTURE DUE TO AGE OF WOUND,
DEBRIS, INFECTION
THIRD INTENTION WOUND HEALING
Answer: HOW A GUNSHOT TO THE BOWEL WOULD BE CLOSED
BOWEL TECHNIQUE
Answer: INVOLVES ISOLATION OF CONTAMINATED INSTRUMENTS
AAA SURGERY
Answer: WOULD REQUIRE PATIENT TO BE SUPINE
FOGARTY
Answer: IS USED TO CLEAR AN ARTERIAL EMBOLECTOMY
JAVID SHUNT
Answer: USED TO PERFORM A CAROTID ENSERTECTOMY
EXTRINSIC EYE MUSCLE PAIRS
Answer: SIX (6)
270 DEGREES
Answer: TEMPERATURE IN A PREVACUUM STERILIZER
REGLAN
Answer: ANTIEMETIC
ANTIEMETIC
Answer: RELIEVES NAUSEA / VOMITING
OSSEOUS LABYRINTH
Answer: FLUID FILLED CANALS IN TEMPORAL BONE
LEUKOCYTOSIS
Answer: ELEVATED WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNT
NARCAN
Answer: NARCOTIC ANTAGONIST AGENT
CONDUCTION
Answer: LOSS OF HEAT DUE TO MOLECULES OF DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES
COLLIDING
INDWELLING URETHRAL CATHETER
Answer: MONITORS URINE PRODUCTION COLLECTS STERILE SPECIMEN KEEPS
BLADDER DEFLATED
ADHESIONS
Answer: ABNORMAL FIBROUS TISSUE THAT BINDS ORGANS
SUTURE GAUGE
Answer: DIAMETER OF SUTURE STRAND
CYSTOGRAM
Answer: X-RAY VISUALIZATION OF THE BLADDER USING A CONTRAST MEDIA
BENNETT
Answer: IS ONE OF MANY ORTHOPEDIC INSTRUMENTS
SUBDURAL HEMATOMA
Answer: BLEEDING BETWEEN THE DURA MATER & ARACHNOID UNDER THE DURA
AND OVER THE ARACHNOID
AAMI
Answer: THE ASSOCIATION THAT DEVELOPS MEDICAL DEVICES
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION
CEPHALOPELVIC DISPORPORTION
Answer: BABY'S HEAD IS TO LARGE TO PASS THROUGH MOTHER'S PELVIS
URETHRAL STENOSIS
Answer: NARROWING OF URETHRAL PASSAGE TREATED WITH BOUGIES AND
BALLOON DILATORS
BOUGIES AND BALLOON DILATORS
Answer: USED TO TREAT URETHRAL STENOSIS
SELF-ACTUALIZATION
Answer: HIGHEST LEVEL OF MASLOW'S HIERARCHY
TENACULUM
Answer: USED TO GRASP CERVIX DURING D&C
THREE-LUMEN TUBE
Answer: USED FOR ASPIRATION, IRRIGATION, AIR ESCAPE
SECOND STAGE LOOP COLOSTOMY
Answer: PERFORMED 48 HOURS AFTER FIRST STAGE
TEST BALLOON
Answer: SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE CATHETERIZATION
LATERAL POSITION
Answer: PATIENT ON SIDE - LOWER LEG IS FLEXED
AEGER PRIMO
Answer: PATIENT FIRST
RES IPSA LOQUITOR
Answer: "THE THING SPEAKS FOR ITSELF" SURGICAL ITEM IS FORGOTTEN IN A
PATIENT
AC CURRENT
Answer: FLOW OF ELECTRONS BACK AND FORTH ALONG SINGLE PATHWAY DUE
TO CHANGE IN POLARITY
DIABETES MELLITUS
Answer: INFECTION IS A COMMON COMPLICATION
GRAVITY AIR DISPLACEMENT
Answer: 15-17 PSI
DEXTRAN
Answer: USED FOR DISTENTION IN HYSTEROSCOPY
HAVERSIAN SYSTEM
Answer: SERIES OF CANALS FOUND IN COMPACT BONE FOR NERVES AND BLOOD
VESSELS
GTT
Answer: "DROP"
DUCT OF WIRSUNG
Answer: UNION SITE OF COMMON BILE DUCT AND PANCREATIC DUCT
BAILEY
Answer: USED FOR KIDNEY REMOVAL
BLETHAROCHALASIS
Answer: LOSS OF ELASTICITY IN EYELIDS
INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS
Answer: CAN BE APPROACHED FRONTAL, BIFRONTAL, OR FRONTOTEMPORAL
**NOT TRANSPHENOIDAL
LUMPECTOMY
Answer: REMOVAL OF MASS AND NON-AFFECTED TISSUE MARGINS
TEMPORALIS FASCIA
Answer: WHEN TAKEN FOR A TYMPANIC MEMBRANE GRAFT SHOULD BE PLACED
ON A DRYING BLOCK
LEYLA
Answer: A SELF RETAINING INTRACRANIAL RETRACTOR
CLASS III
Answer: A MAJOR BREAK IN ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE
INFANT'S NORMAL HEART RATE
Answer: 130 BPM
HELMINTHS
Answer: PARASITIC WORMS
LACTIC ACID
Answer: BUILD UP CAUSES MUSCLE PAIN / IRRITABILITY
CARPALS
Answer: 8 IN EACH WRIST
ASPIRIN
Answer: IS A BLOOD THINNER
SURGICAL MASKS
Answer: SHOULD BE ON OR OFF SHOULD NOT BE HUNG AROUND THE NECK
PALMARIS LONGUS
Answer: TENDON USED AS A GRAFT TO REPAIR FLEXOR TENDON
POTASSIUM TITANIUM PHOSPHATE CRYSTALS
Answer: ND:YAG LIGHT PASSES THRU THIS TO CREATE KTP LASER
DOPPLER
Answer: USED TO MEASURE BLOOD PRESSURE / PULSE USING ULTRASONIC HIGH
FREQUENCY SOUND WAVES
TOTAL ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY
Answer: TAH - REMOVAL OF UTERUS
EACH PIECE IS COUNTED
Answer: IF A SURGICAL BLADE IS BROKEN HOW SHOULD THE ST HANDLE THE
COUNT?
CURVED KOCHER
Answer: WOULD BE FOUND IN A GENERAL INSTRUMENT SET
PORTOCAVAL SHUNT
Answer: CREATES AN ANASTOMOSES BETWEEN THE INFERIOR VENA CAVA AND
THE PORTAL VEIN
MARSUPIALIZATION OF BARTHOLIN'S CYST
Answer: REQUIRES A DRAIN POST-OP
ILEOCECAL VALVE
Answer: VALVE SEPARATING SMALL INTESTINE FROM LARGE INTESTINE
COWPER'S GLAND
Answer: ASSOCIATED WITH PROSTATE
GORE-TEX GRAFT
Answer: POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE
16 POUNDS
Answer: PACKAGES OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS SHOULD WEIGH NO MORE THAN
CYSTOSCOPY
Answer: A CLEAN - NOT STERILE ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURE
SILVERMAN
Answer: USED FOR A LIVER BIOPSY
CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS
Answer: PREMATURE CLOSING OF CRANIAL SUTURES
5-0 DOUBLE ARMED VASCULAR SUTURE
Answer: USED FOR ANASTOMOSIS OF RENAL VEIN DURING LIVING DONOR
PROCEDURE
INCORRECT COUNT
Answer: FIRST PRIORITY IS TO INFORM SURGEON
BUPIVICAINE
Answer: GENERIC MARCAINE
ENDOTOXINS
Answer: TOXINS PRODUCED / RELEASED BY BACTERIA UPON THE DESTRUCTION
OF CELLS
OMENTUM
Answer: THE FOLD / APRON OF PERITONEUM THAT LIES OVER ABDOMINAL
ORGANS
CESAREAN SECTION
Answer: PATIENT SUPINE WITH RIGHT SIDE ELEVATION
CHOCOLATE CYST
Answer: BENIGN OVARIAN CYST CONTAINING OLD BLOOD
PADGETT
Answer: MOTOR DRIVEN DERMATOME
DERMATOME
Answer: INSTRUMENT USED TO CUT THE SKIN
BURN CLASSIFICATION
Answer: ELECTRICAL, CHEMICAL, THERMAL, MECHANICAL
PUSH FROM THE HEAD
Answer: WHEN TRANSPORTING A PATIENT ON A STRETCHER
ANCEF
Answer: CEPHALOSPORIN
GLUTARALDEHYDE
Answer: 10 HOUR EXPOSURE TIME FOR STERILIZATION CHEMICAL AGENT USED
FOR STERILIZATION
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WHEN USING GLUTARALDEHYDE
Answer: MUST BE MONITORED FOR CONCENTRATION
MUST BE STORED IN CLOSED CONTAINER
MUST WEAR GLOVE AND GOGGLES WHEN HANDLING
BISPECTRAL INDEX
Answer: NON-INVASIVE METHOD TO MEASURE ANESTHESIA LEVELS
STOCKINETTE
Answer: A SEAMLESS TUBULAR COTTON DRESSING/DRAPE
3 PARTS OF A NEEDLE
Answer: POINT, BODY, EYE
INTESTINAL SUTURE
Answer: 3-0 SILK
DIAPHRAM
Answer: THE FUNDUS IS ANCHORED AGAINST THIS DURING A NISSEN
FUNDOPLICATION
PREGNANCY
Answer: A CONTRAINDICATION FOR HYSTERECTOMY
CARPEL TUNNEL RELEASE
Answer: PATIENT MAY BE SITTING DURING PROCEDURE
BOWIE DICK
Answer: TEST USED DAILY TO CHECK VERACITY OF PREVACUUM STERILIZER
MONOCRYL
Answer: SUBCUTANEOUS SUTURE
VESTIBULE
Answer: SPACE BETWEEN THE COCHLEA AND THE SEMICIRCULAR CANALS OF
INNER EAR
LATERAL KNEE
Answer: PRESSURE POINT FOR PATIENT IN PRONE POSITION
KEVORKIAN
Answer: CURETTE COMMONLY USED FOR ENDOCERVICAL SCRAP
CALLUS STAGE
Answer: STAGE OF OSTEAOGENESIS THAT CREATES A FIBROUS TISSUE AND
CARTILAGE MESH
DEMEROL
Answer: NARCOTIC SEDATIVE
APLASIA
Answer: FAILURE OF AN ORGAN TO DEVELOP PROPERLY
INTERFERON
Answer: CHEMICAL PRODUCED BY A CELL INFECTED WITH A VIRUS THAT
PROTECTS OTHER CELLS
50-55%
Answer: RELATIVE HUMIDITY REQUIRED IN THE OR
CONNEL
Answer: THE SUTURE LINE FOR INNER LAYERS OF BOWEL MUCOSA
PEZZAR DRAIN
Answer: COMMON DRAIN USED IN CHOLECYSTOSTOMY
