SURGICAL FIRST ASSIST LATEST EXAMS
EVALUATION ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
A+
✔✔Side-to-side anastomosis - ✔✔Creation of paraellel opening in 2 sections of bowel
w/anastomosis.
✔✔End-to-end anastomosis - ✔✔Surgical connection of two segments of blood vessel
by stitching the open end of one segment to the open end of another segment.
✔✔End-to-side anastomosis - ✔✔Attachment of the end of one section of bowel into the
side of another section.
✔✔lithotomy position - ✔✔Used for procedures that will need access to the perineal
area
Candy cane
Yellow fin stirrups
✔✔Why is blood flow vital to tissue healing? what piece of equipment is frequently used
to assess the blood flow to tissues? - ✔✔Blood flow is crucial healing because new
blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the wound, a SPY can be used to show blood flow
and perforation in tissue
, ✔✔Autograft - ✔✔tissue from self
Skin graft, fat injections
✔✔Allograft and example - ✔✔Tissue from same species
Cadaver
ACL, alloderm
✔✔Xenograft and example - ✔✔Different species
Valves
✔✔Synthetic graft - ✔✔non-biologic source
✔✔Describe one special consideration when prepping and draping for a reconstructive
procedure - ✔✔
✔✔Give an example: free graft - ✔✔Detached from donor site and transplanted
-skin graft, fat injection
Detached from blood supply and reattached to vessels at the recipient site
✔✔Give an example: pedicle flap - ✔✔Tissue remains attached at one or both ends
-"Swung" to accommodate deficit
Original blood supply is not sacrficied
✔✔Give an example: free flap - ✔✔Tissue and vascular bundle is detached from the
donor site and transferred
-DIEP
✔✔What is typically used to prep the donor site during a skin graft? - ✔✔
✔✔what population does gynecomastia affect? - ✔✔Men during puberty or after 40's,
breast reduction in males
✔✔A wound vac uses what kind of pressure to help with healing? - ✔✔Negative
pressure
✔✔What is tumescent solution made of and when is it used? - ✔✔Local anesthesia
usually lidocaine and epinephrine that is very diluted in a large volume and injected into
fat beneath the skin for liposuction
✔✔What suture would be the best choice for closing the skin following breast
reconstructive? - ✔✔
✔✔Characteristic: 1st degree burn - ✔✔Outer layer only, sunburn, healing rapid
EVALUATION ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
A+
✔✔Side-to-side anastomosis - ✔✔Creation of paraellel opening in 2 sections of bowel
w/anastomosis.
✔✔End-to-end anastomosis - ✔✔Surgical connection of two segments of blood vessel
by stitching the open end of one segment to the open end of another segment.
✔✔End-to-side anastomosis - ✔✔Attachment of the end of one section of bowel into the
side of another section.
✔✔lithotomy position - ✔✔Used for procedures that will need access to the perineal
area
Candy cane
Yellow fin stirrups
✔✔Why is blood flow vital to tissue healing? what piece of equipment is frequently used
to assess the blood flow to tissues? - ✔✔Blood flow is crucial healing because new
blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the wound, a SPY can be used to show blood flow
and perforation in tissue
, ✔✔Autograft - ✔✔tissue from self
Skin graft, fat injections
✔✔Allograft and example - ✔✔Tissue from same species
Cadaver
ACL, alloderm
✔✔Xenograft and example - ✔✔Different species
Valves
✔✔Synthetic graft - ✔✔non-biologic source
✔✔Describe one special consideration when prepping and draping for a reconstructive
procedure - ✔✔
✔✔Give an example: free graft - ✔✔Detached from donor site and transplanted
-skin graft, fat injection
Detached from blood supply and reattached to vessels at the recipient site
✔✔Give an example: pedicle flap - ✔✔Tissue remains attached at one or both ends
-"Swung" to accommodate deficit
Original blood supply is not sacrficied
✔✔Give an example: free flap - ✔✔Tissue and vascular bundle is detached from the
donor site and transferred
-DIEP
✔✔What is typically used to prep the donor site during a skin graft? - ✔✔
✔✔what population does gynecomastia affect? - ✔✔Men during puberty or after 40's,
breast reduction in males
✔✔A wound vac uses what kind of pressure to help with healing? - ✔✔Negative
pressure
✔✔What is tumescent solution made of and when is it used? - ✔✔Local anesthesia
usually lidocaine and epinephrine that is very diluted in a large volume and injected into
fat beneath the skin for liposuction
✔✔What suture would be the best choice for closing the skin following breast
reconstructive? - ✔✔
✔✔Characteristic: 1st degree burn - ✔✔Outer layer only, sunburn, healing rapid
