CSFA FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔When the surgeon incises tissue, the surgical assistant usually provides a clear field
by?
A. Light Adjustment
B. Clamping
C. Retraction
D. Cauterizing - ✔✔C
✔✔Which procedure is known as a Kelley procedure?
A. Anterior colporrhaphy
B. Cervical conization
C. Bartholin cyst marsupialization
D. Vulvectomy - ✔✔A
✔✔What type of shunt is used during a Carotid Endarterectomy?
A. Javid
B. Fogarty
C. Swan-Ganz
D. Rummel - ✔✔A
✔✔Which organ has a fragile collagen-rich capsule and must be handled carefully?
A. Kidney
B. Gallbladder
C. Liver
D. Spleen - ✔✔D
✔✔Which procedure would require a pneumatic tourniquet:
A. Fem-Pop bypass
B. AV fistula creation
C. Total knee replacement
D. intramedullary tibial nailing - ✔✔C
✔✔When applying clamps to a major vessel the is to be preserved, What is the
preferred clamp to use?
A. Peon
B. Crile
C. Satinsky
,D. Ochsner - ✔✔C
✔✔what is a role of the surgical assistant during robotic cases?
A. Place Access cannula
B. Exchange instrument arms
C. Position the patient cart
D. Operate instrument from console - ✔✔B
✔✔What can be done to prevent wrong site surgeries?
A. Bring the patient to the OR prior to the surgeon marking the site
B. Surgical assistant should mark the patient if the surgeon is unavailable.
C. Surgeon must mark the surgical site preoperatively
D. Put and "X" or write the word "NO" on the non-operative side - ✔✔C
✔✔When placing a drain for an abdominoplasty, which is MOST commonly used?
A. Jackson-Pratt
B. Malecot
C. Pleur-Vac
D. T-tube - ✔✔A
✔✔Injury to which of the following arteries is commonly seen in the tempterm-20oral
lobes, where the skull is the thinnest and meningeal blood vessels are numerous, and is
the usual cause of epidural hematoma?
A.Middle meningeal
B. posterior meningeal
C. Temporal
D. Cerebal - ✔✔A
✔✔what is the desired effect when applying a partially threaded cancellous screw to a
bone fragment?
A. Distraction
B. Rotation
C. Compression
D. Subluxation - ✔✔C.
✔✔During an abdominal hysterectomy, the surgeon initially isolates the uterus by
separating it from the?
A. Bladder
B. Round ligaments
, C. Broad ligaments
D. Cervix - ✔✔B
✔✔During a carotid endarterectomy, the final occlusion clamp to be removed after
anastomosis is the?
A. Common carotid
B. Internal carotid
C. External carotid
D. Thyroid branch - ✔✔B
✔✔The primary purpose of a robotic device designed to hold and maneuver a
laparoscope is to?
A. Eliminate tremor associated with operating the endoscope
B. replace the surgeon
C. Decrease set-up time for an endoscope
D. Reduce the incidence of fogging - ✔✔A
✔✔During a carotid endarterectomy, the arteries are unclamped and reclamped before
arrteriotomy closure is performed to?
A. Flush free debris from the carotid
B. Restore complete blood flow to the brain
C. Increase collateral flow
D. Ensure patency of the carotid body - ✔✔A
✔✔When opening the aneurysmal sac during resection of an abdominal aortic
aneurysm (AAA), Which artery is ligated?
A. Lumbar
B. supine mesenteric
C. Renal
D. Common hepatic - ✔✔A
✔✔When entering the skull during a craniotomy, it is important to prevent excess heat
to the skull and to avoid floating bone dust by?
A. Using a moist sponge to dab the drill site
B. Keeping suction close to the drill site
C. Irrigating at the drill site with saline
D. Using Raney clips to prevent the drill from getting hot - ✔✔C
✔✔During arterial embolectomy, which catheter is used for clot removal?
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔When the surgeon incises tissue, the surgical assistant usually provides a clear field
by?
A. Light Adjustment
B. Clamping
C. Retraction
D. Cauterizing - ✔✔C
✔✔Which procedure is known as a Kelley procedure?
A. Anterior colporrhaphy
B. Cervical conization
C. Bartholin cyst marsupialization
D. Vulvectomy - ✔✔A
✔✔What type of shunt is used during a Carotid Endarterectomy?
A. Javid
B. Fogarty
C. Swan-Ganz
D. Rummel - ✔✔A
✔✔Which organ has a fragile collagen-rich capsule and must be handled carefully?
A. Kidney
B. Gallbladder
C. Liver
D. Spleen - ✔✔D
✔✔Which procedure would require a pneumatic tourniquet:
A. Fem-Pop bypass
B. AV fistula creation
C. Total knee replacement
D. intramedullary tibial nailing - ✔✔C
✔✔When applying clamps to a major vessel the is to be preserved, What is the
preferred clamp to use?
A. Peon
B. Crile
C. Satinsky
,D. Ochsner - ✔✔C
✔✔what is a role of the surgical assistant during robotic cases?
A. Place Access cannula
B. Exchange instrument arms
C. Position the patient cart
D. Operate instrument from console - ✔✔B
✔✔What can be done to prevent wrong site surgeries?
A. Bring the patient to the OR prior to the surgeon marking the site
B. Surgical assistant should mark the patient if the surgeon is unavailable.
C. Surgeon must mark the surgical site preoperatively
D. Put and "X" or write the word "NO" on the non-operative side - ✔✔C
✔✔When placing a drain for an abdominoplasty, which is MOST commonly used?
A. Jackson-Pratt
B. Malecot
C. Pleur-Vac
D. T-tube - ✔✔A
✔✔Injury to which of the following arteries is commonly seen in the tempterm-20oral
lobes, where the skull is the thinnest and meningeal blood vessels are numerous, and is
the usual cause of epidural hematoma?
A.Middle meningeal
B. posterior meningeal
C. Temporal
D. Cerebal - ✔✔A
✔✔what is the desired effect when applying a partially threaded cancellous screw to a
bone fragment?
A. Distraction
B. Rotation
C. Compression
D. Subluxation - ✔✔C.
✔✔During an abdominal hysterectomy, the surgeon initially isolates the uterus by
separating it from the?
A. Bladder
B. Round ligaments
, C. Broad ligaments
D. Cervix - ✔✔B
✔✔During a carotid endarterectomy, the final occlusion clamp to be removed after
anastomosis is the?
A. Common carotid
B. Internal carotid
C. External carotid
D. Thyroid branch - ✔✔B
✔✔The primary purpose of a robotic device designed to hold and maneuver a
laparoscope is to?
A. Eliminate tremor associated with operating the endoscope
B. replace the surgeon
C. Decrease set-up time for an endoscope
D. Reduce the incidence of fogging - ✔✔A
✔✔During a carotid endarterectomy, the arteries are unclamped and reclamped before
arrteriotomy closure is performed to?
A. Flush free debris from the carotid
B. Restore complete blood flow to the brain
C. Increase collateral flow
D. Ensure patency of the carotid body - ✔✔A
✔✔When opening the aneurysmal sac during resection of an abdominal aortic
aneurysm (AAA), Which artery is ligated?
A. Lumbar
B. supine mesenteric
C. Renal
D. Common hepatic - ✔✔A
✔✔When entering the skull during a craniotomy, it is important to prevent excess heat
to the skull and to avoid floating bone dust by?
A. Using a moist sponge to dab the drill site
B. Keeping suction close to the drill site
C. Irrigating at the drill site with saline
D. Using Raney clips to prevent the drill from getting hot - ✔✔C
✔✔During arterial embolectomy, which catheter is used for clot removal?
