CPTC Question and Answer [2026] | UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam | Ultimate Study Guide
• AOPO -✓✓ provides education, research, information sharing, and technical
assistance
• CMS -✓✓ offers financial coverage to individuals with end stage renal disease and
reimburses for organ transplant, as well as holds hospitals accountable for referring
potential donors
• HRSA -✓✓ Part of the US Dept of Health and Human services, improves access the
healthcare for uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable Americans
• NOTA -✓✓ outlaws the sale of human organs and established OPTN, task force and
SRTR.
• USDRS -✓✓ collects, analyzes, and distributes data about end-stage, renal disease,
which helps one understand the demand for kidney transplantation.
• UAGA -✓✓ provides legal right to uphold a registered donor's wishes and advocate for
their intent to be a donor, even if the family doesn't support
• OPO incurs cost, reimbursed by transplant center, reimbursed by Medicare -✓✓
reimbursement r/t renal organs
• UDDA -✓✓ provided medically sound base for determining death
• NOTA -✓✓ created OPTN, established federal grants for OPO, and created SRTR
• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act -✓✓ requires that all hospitals participating in
Medicare or Medicaid have protocols for encouraging organ and tissue donation
• 62% -✓✓ what % of bd donors will experience cardiac arrest within 24 hrs
• 87% -✓✓ what % of bd donors will experience cardiac arrest within 72 hrs
• 66% in 24hrs -✓✓ Once WDLS begins, how long on average before family decision is
made to withdraw care
• TB, Gangrene of bowel, perforated bowel, and abdominal sepsis -✓✓ bacterial rule
outs - 4
, • aplastic anemia, agranulocytosis, extreme immaturity, msof due to overwhelming
sepsis -✓✓ general rule outs - uncommmon
• <500 grams or gestational age <32 weeks -✓✓ extreme immaturity
• <70, documented BD -✓✓ criteria for eligible donor
• < 70, absence of 3 or more BSR -✓✓ criteria for imminent
• >70, or meets exclusionary criteria -✓✓ criteria for neither
• True -✓✓ donor can be classified as neither even if declared bd and organs recovered
- T or F
• cross clamp must occur to be converted -✓✓ what is the difference in conversion and
consent rate
• <30 days 48 hrs, >30 days 12-24hrs -✓✓ recommended time of b/w Bd testing in
pediatrics
• O -✓✓ universal donor
• AB -✓✓ universal recipient
• HIV -✓✓ diagnostic testing is not acceptable for what
• VDRL/RPR -✓✓ diagnostic testing is acceptable for what
• 24hrs -✓✓ how long does OPO have to report positive screening or diagnostic tests
post recovery
• Cushing's triad -✓✓ sign of increased ICP - vitals
• HTN, bradycardia, widened pulse pressure -✓✓ what is Cushing's triad
• Cushing's reflex -✓✓ as the brainstem is compressed , the body attempts to improve
cerebral perfusion by increasing bp, which subsequently decreases HR
• hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis -✓✓ what controls ACTH/ADH before herniation
• aerobic to anaerobic -✓✓ brain death causes what switch in metabolism
• 3-4 hours -✓✓ Onset for T4
ACTUAL Exam | Ultimate Study Guide
• AOPO -✓✓ provides education, research, information sharing, and technical
assistance
• CMS -✓✓ offers financial coverage to individuals with end stage renal disease and
reimburses for organ transplant, as well as holds hospitals accountable for referring
potential donors
• HRSA -✓✓ Part of the US Dept of Health and Human services, improves access the
healthcare for uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable Americans
• NOTA -✓✓ outlaws the sale of human organs and established OPTN, task force and
SRTR.
• USDRS -✓✓ collects, analyzes, and distributes data about end-stage, renal disease,
which helps one understand the demand for kidney transplantation.
• UAGA -✓✓ provides legal right to uphold a registered donor's wishes and advocate for
their intent to be a donor, even if the family doesn't support
• OPO incurs cost, reimbursed by transplant center, reimbursed by Medicare -✓✓
reimbursement r/t renal organs
• UDDA -✓✓ provided medically sound base for determining death
• NOTA -✓✓ created OPTN, established federal grants for OPO, and created SRTR
• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act -✓✓ requires that all hospitals participating in
Medicare or Medicaid have protocols for encouraging organ and tissue donation
• 62% -✓✓ what % of bd donors will experience cardiac arrest within 24 hrs
• 87% -✓✓ what % of bd donors will experience cardiac arrest within 72 hrs
• 66% in 24hrs -✓✓ Once WDLS begins, how long on average before family decision is
made to withdraw care
• TB, Gangrene of bowel, perforated bowel, and abdominal sepsis -✓✓ bacterial rule
outs - 4
, • aplastic anemia, agranulocytosis, extreme immaturity, msof due to overwhelming
sepsis -✓✓ general rule outs - uncommmon
• <500 grams or gestational age <32 weeks -✓✓ extreme immaturity
• <70, documented BD -✓✓ criteria for eligible donor
• < 70, absence of 3 or more BSR -✓✓ criteria for imminent
• >70, or meets exclusionary criteria -✓✓ criteria for neither
• True -✓✓ donor can be classified as neither even if declared bd and organs recovered
- T or F
• cross clamp must occur to be converted -✓✓ what is the difference in conversion and
consent rate
• <30 days 48 hrs, >30 days 12-24hrs -✓✓ recommended time of b/w Bd testing in
pediatrics
• O -✓✓ universal donor
• AB -✓✓ universal recipient
• HIV -✓✓ diagnostic testing is not acceptable for what
• VDRL/RPR -✓✓ diagnostic testing is acceptable for what
• 24hrs -✓✓ how long does OPO have to report positive screening or diagnostic tests
post recovery
• Cushing's triad -✓✓ sign of increased ICP - vitals
• HTN, bradycardia, widened pulse pressure -✓✓ what is Cushing's triad
• Cushing's reflex -✓✓ as the brainstem is compressed , the body attempts to improve
cerebral perfusion by increasing bp, which subsequently decreases HR
• hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis -✓✓ what controls ACTH/ADH before herniation
• aerobic to anaerobic -✓✓ brain death causes what switch in metabolism
• 3-4 hours -✓✓ Onset for T4
