SURGICAL FIRST ASSIST 2026 EXAM TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔deceleration injury - ✔✔Different movements of fixed and non-fixed structures
(e.g. liver and spleen laceration at sites of supporting ligaments)
✔✔What is a blunt stab wound considered? - ✔✔Crush injury
✔✔What is a sharp stab wound considered? - ✔✔Tissue disruption
✔✔What is the critera for knowing the extent of injury from a stab wound? - ✔✔Weapon
size, length, sharpness, penetration
✔✔Code yellow - ✔✔Multiple causalities
-imminent arrival of 5 to 10 red trauma patients
-imminent arrival of 3 to 9 pediatric red trauma
-imminent arrival at ED of 11-20
✔✔Code orange - ✔✔Mass casualties
-imminent arrival at ED of 11 or more red trauma
-imminent arrival at ED of 9 or more red trauma peds
-imminent arrival ED 21 or more patients
, ✔✔What constitutes a level red trauma patient? - ✔✔-Breathing but unconscious
-Respiration over 30
-Capillary Refill >2 seconds or no radial pulse
Mental status- unable to follow simple commands
✔✔What are the ABCDEF of a primary survey initial assessment? - ✔✔A- airway
B- Breathing
C- Circulation
D- Disability
E-Exposure
F-Fracture
✔✔Glasgow Coma Scale - ✔✔Initial assessment: disability
Neurological status: Eye, motor-best predictor of long term outcome, verbal
✔✔What is Beck's triad of cardiac tamponade? - ✔✔1. Distant heart sounds, 2.
Distended jugular veins 3. Hypotension
✔✔Isograft - ✔✔genetically identical sibling or clone
✔✔bio-engineered graft - ✔✔Combined synthetic and biologic materials
✔✔Split thickness skin graft - ✔✔skin graft in which the epidermis and half the dermis
up to 1 mm are used
-back, trunk, legs
✔✔Full thickness skin graft - ✔✔Epidermis, dermis, and occasionally subcutaneous fat
are removed
-Face, neck, hands, elbows, axilla, knees and feet
✔✔What is the 5 variable scale used to evaluate injury and probability of survival? -
✔✔Abbreviated burn severity index (ABS)
1. age
2. sex
3. presence of inhalation
4. full thickness
5.% of the body burned
✔✔History of present illness
OPQRSTA - ✔✔-onset
-Progression
-Quality
-Radiation
-Scale
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔deceleration injury - ✔✔Different movements of fixed and non-fixed structures
(e.g. liver and spleen laceration at sites of supporting ligaments)
✔✔What is a blunt stab wound considered? - ✔✔Crush injury
✔✔What is a sharp stab wound considered? - ✔✔Tissue disruption
✔✔What is the critera for knowing the extent of injury from a stab wound? - ✔✔Weapon
size, length, sharpness, penetration
✔✔Code yellow - ✔✔Multiple causalities
-imminent arrival of 5 to 10 red trauma patients
-imminent arrival of 3 to 9 pediatric red trauma
-imminent arrival at ED of 11-20
✔✔Code orange - ✔✔Mass casualties
-imminent arrival at ED of 11 or more red trauma
-imminent arrival at ED of 9 or more red trauma peds
-imminent arrival ED 21 or more patients
, ✔✔What constitutes a level red trauma patient? - ✔✔-Breathing but unconscious
-Respiration over 30
-Capillary Refill >2 seconds or no radial pulse
Mental status- unable to follow simple commands
✔✔What are the ABCDEF of a primary survey initial assessment? - ✔✔A- airway
B- Breathing
C- Circulation
D- Disability
E-Exposure
F-Fracture
✔✔Glasgow Coma Scale - ✔✔Initial assessment: disability
Neurological status: Eye, motor-best predictor of long term outcome, verbal
✔✔What is Beck's triad of cardiac tamponade? - ✔✔1. Distant heart sounds, 2.
Distended jugular veins 3. Hypotension
✔✔Isograft - ✔✔genetically identical sibling or clone
✔✔bio-engineered graft - ✔✔Combined synthetic and biologic materials
✔✔Split thickness skin graft - ✔✔skin graft in which the epidermis and half the dermis
up to 1 mm are used
-back, trunk, legs
✔✔Full thickness skin graft - ✔✔Epidermis, dermis, and occasionally subcutaneous fat
are removed
-Face, neck, hands, elbows, axilla, knees and feet
✔✔What is the 5 variable scale used to evaluate injury and probability of survival? -
✔✔Abbreviated burn severity index (ABS)
1. age
2. sex
3. presence of inhalation
4. full thickness
5.% of the body burned
✔✔History of present illness
OPQRSTA - ✔✔-onset
-Progression
-Quality
-Radiation
-Scale
