Certified Veterinary Assistant - Level 1:
Course 107 Surgical Preparation and
Assistance 2024/2025 Exam Questions
and Answers | 100% Pass
Anesthetic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An agent used to cause a loss of feeling or sensation.
Castration - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Excision of the gonads (testicles), rendering a male
animal incapable of reproduction.
Cesarean Section - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Delivery of a fetus by incision through the
abdominal wall and uterine wall.
Declaw - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Surgical remove of the claws of felines and canines. Not
typically performed on canines. Also called onychectomy.
Hemostat - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An instrument for constricting a blood vessel to check
the flow or escape of blood.
Intubation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The insertion of a tube, as into the trachea or
windpipe. Generally, the procedure is done to allow for drainage, to maintain
an open airway, or for the administration of anesthetics or oxygen.
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, Neuter/Spay - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To desex an animal. Castration (male) and
ovariohysterectomy (female) are the usual procedures.
Ovariohysterectomy (OHE) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Surgical excision of the ovaries and
the uterus, used as a meas of preventing pregnancy and estrous cycles, for the
removal of diseased uterus. Also known as "spay."
Scalpel Handle - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A small straight handle (that is usually sterile)
that a sterile scalpel blade or sharp knife-like blade with a convex edge is
attached to for making surgical incisions.
Scissors - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cutting instruments consisting of two opposing blades
pivoted centrally.
Spay - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A procedure to remove the ovaries and uterus, rendering a
female animal incapable of reproduction.
Sterile - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Non-fertile; barren; not producing young.
2. Aseptic; not producing or free from living microorganisms.
(107.A) What step is this for cleaning surgical instruments: Mix a diluted
solution of milk bath. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔5
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Course 107 Surgical Preparation and
Assistance 2024/2025 Exam Questions
and Answers | 100% Pass
Anesthetic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An agent used to cause a loss of feeling or sensation.
Castration - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Excision of the gonads (testicles), rendering a male
animal incapable of reproduction.
Cesarean Section - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Delivery of a fetus by incision through the
abdominal wall and uterine wall.
Declaw - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Surgical remove of the claws of felines and canines. Not
typically performed on canines. Also called onychectomy.
Hemostat - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An instrument for constricting a blood vessel to check
the flow or escape of blood.
Intubation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The insertion of a tube, as into the trachea or
windpipe. Generally, the procedure is done to allow for drainage, to maintain
an open airway, or for the administration of anesthetics or oxygen.
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619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Neuter/Spay - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To desex an animal. Castration (male) and
ovariohysterectomy (female) are the usual procedures.
Ovariohysterectomy (OHE) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Surgical excision of the ovaries and
the uterus, used as a meas of preventing pregnancy and estrous cycles, for the
removal of diseased uterus. Also known as "spay."
Scalpel Handle - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A small straight handle (that is usually sterile)
that a sterile scalpel blade or sharp knife-like blade with a convex edge is
attached to for making surgical incisions.
Scissors - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cutting instruments consisting of two opposing blades
pivoted centrally.
Spay - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A procedure to remove the ovaries and uterus, rendering a
female animal incapable of reproduction.
Sterile - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Non-fertile; barren; not producing young.
2. Aseptic; not producing or free from living microorganisms.
(107.A) What step is this for cleaning surgical instruments: Mix a diluted
solution of milk bath. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔5
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