ST 106 Comprehensive Review Questions and Answers 2024/2025
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Course
ST 106
Institution
ST 106
Case planning
Combines good knowledge of a surgical procedure and surgical techniques.
Diagnostic procedure
Provide information about the nature of a medical problem and the options available
for treatment. These may be done as a part of surgery or as a separate procedure.
Surgical re...
ST 106 Comprehensive Review Questions
and Answers 2024/2025
Case planning
Combines good knowledge of a surgical procedure and surgical techniques.
Diagnostic procedure
Provide information about the nature of a medical problem and the options available
for treatment. These may be done as a part of surgery or as a separate procedure.
Surgical reconstruction
Tissue is remodeled or replaced for functional or aesthetic reasons. It may be
performed as a single operation or may require several procedures.
Repair
The goal of this surgery is to restore function to a structure, organ or system; it can
involve any type of tissue and this determines what instruments or special equipment
are needed.
Removal
This may involve tissue, an organ or a foreign body.
Tissue replacement
Can also be called implantation. Involves the implantation of an organ or other
anotomical sturctrue that has lost function through disease or trauma.
The most commonly used method. They are prepared by central supply and
transferred to the surgical substerile area.
Surgeon's preference card
Specifies specific instrument sets, equipment and supplies needed for a procedure.
Will also include his/her gown and glove size, preferred prep and draping methods,
any drugs that may be used (including dose and strength) as well as their individual
techniques. It may be paper or digital form.
Sterile supplies
Are opened in sequence from large to small.
A methodical approach
To sterile setups improves efficiency.
Purpose of a sterile back table
Increases the size of the sterile setup for other items to be distributed.
Basic pack
Contains towels, drapes and gowns and is centered on the back table.
Avoid
Shifting items from one place to another. Try to move items only once; to do otherwise
is not productive and increases the chance of contamination.
Irrigation and soaking solutions
Are usually distributed either just before the case starts or shortly after it is underway.
Before surgery begins to establish a baasline count; Before closure of a hollow organ
(ie: the uterus); Before closure of a body cavity; Before skin closure; Whenever there is
a suspicion that an item has been retained; Whenever there is a change in personel
(ie:breaks or end of shift).
All team members
Are responsible for ensuring that no item is left in a patient.
Scrub and circulating nurse
Are actively responsible for perfoming the counts and to notify the surgeon when the
count is incorrect.
Inadequate lighting
Increases the risk of error. The surg tech makes adjustments as needed.
Radiopaque strip
Is on every type of sponge that can be used in surgery within the body.
Laparotomy sponge (Lap)
Used in major surgeries and are used to absorb blood and fluidsand for padding
beneath the blades of large retractors.
Instruments
Are passed in the closed position (unless directed otherwise by the surgeon) and in
position of use.
Neutral zone technique
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