CTBS EXAM SCRIPT UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Heart for valve donors shall be evaluated for risk of:
- Chagas
- Pulmonary embolisms - ✔✔Chagas
✔✔According to AATB Standards for Tissue Banking, the age limit for a deceased
tissue donor is:
- 100
- 65
- Dependent on the weight of the donor
- at the discretion of the tissue bank's medical director - ✔✔at the discretion of the
tissue bank's medical director
✔✔You have been assigned to complete the heart for valve recovery on a 20 day old
donor. The blood sample for infectious disease testing must be collected from:
- the donor
- the donor's mother if the baby was being breastfed
- the donor's mother
- the donor's mother if there is no ante-mortem sample from the donor - ✔✔the donor's
mother
✔✔The donor risk assessment interview (DRAI) should be completed with the:
- significant other/spouse
- legal NOK
- PCP
- most knowledgeable person - ✔✔most knowledgeable person
✔✔You are currently completing the DRAI on a potential donor. The historian stated
that the potential donor used heroin four years ago. What must be clarified before
moving forward with the case?
- The route of drug use. (e.g., ingested, snorter, smoked, injected...)
- if the individual had an infectious disease testing panel ran in the last year.
- if heroin was used at the time of death
- if the potential donor had ever been charged with drug possession - ✔✔The route of
drug use
✔✔You are completing the DRAI and learn that the potential donor lived with a relative
who was HIV positive at the time of death. According to AATB Standards for Tissue
Banking you must
- Proceed with the case if there was no physical or sexual interaction between the two
individuals
- Confirm if the potential donor had recently had an infectious panel ran
- Defer the case
,- Proceed with the case if the donor was being treated with antiviral medications -
✔✔Defer the case
✔✔While completing the DRAI, the historian mentioned the potential donor was not
allowed to donate blood but they were unsure why. They answered no to all high risk
questions and there are no other potential historians. According at AATB Standards for
Tissue Banking, what should you do?
- Move forward because there were no concerning high risk questions
- Move forward because blood banking has very different criteria than tissue banking
- Move forward is there is going to be an autopsy
- Defer the case - ✔✔Defer the case
✔✔Relevant medical records may include which of the following:
- Primary care records
- Emergency services report
- The autopsy report
- Toxicology report
- Infectious disease testing
- Radiography reports
- All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔You are completing the medical record review of a potential donor that passed after
an extended hospital admission. The donor had blood cultures ran 12 hours before the
time of death and the outcomes are pending. What should you do?
- Defer the case due to unknown culture results.
- Wait to move forward until the cultures are finalized.
- Move forward based on the review of available relevant medical records.
- Screen based on blood cultures ran the week prior. - ✔✔Move forward based on the
review of available relevant medical records
✔✔What document must be included in the donor record if no third-party records are
available?
- A signed document confirming no hospital records were generated.
- A copy of all referral notes.
- The death certificate.
- A copy of the donor's advanced directive. - ✔✔The death certificate
✔✔For birth tissue, what additional records must be reviewed?
- Genetic testing.
- Notes and details through delivery and time of acquisition.
- Notes from the baby's first doctor visit.
- None. Only records created through pregnancy must be reviewed. - ✔✔Notes and
details through delivery and time of acquisition
✔✔The physical assessment must be completed by a
, - medical examiner.
- medical doctor.
- Certified Tissue Bank Specialist.
- responsible person. - ✔✔responsible person
✔✔Under the autopsy section of the physical assessment form, what does a viewing
refer to?
- An external assessment of the deceased individual, evaluation of circumstances,
document and possible toxicology screening
- The family viewing at the funeral home
- A full autopsy
- The coroner observing the tissue recovery - ✔✔An external assessment of the
deceased individual, evaluation of circumstances, document and possible toxicology
screening
✔✔You are completing the physical assessment of a potential tissue donor authorized
for the recovery of bone from the lower extremities only. You are unable to move the
donor to complete the assessment of the posterior of the donor's body. What should you
do?
- Move forward with the recovery as no tissue is being recovered from the back and
note "unable to visualize."
- Move forward with the recovery because there are no signs of high-risk.
- Contact the donor's primary care physician to ask if there were any recent concerns.
- Defer the case as a complete physical assessment could not be completed. - ✔✔Defer
the case as a complete physical assessment could not be completed
✔✔Which of the following is NOT an acceptable reason for jaundice?
- Alcoholic hepatitis.
- Unknown etiology.
- Alcoholic cirrhosis.
- Advanced stage liver and multi-system organ failure. - ✔✔Unknown etiology
✔✔Findings on the physical assessment should not conflict with the information
provided in the
- Death referral from the hospital.
- Donor Risk Assessment Interview (DRAI).
- Hospital medical record.
- All of the above. - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔Case documentation, including the physical assessment should be documented
- within 24 hours of the case.
- in real time.
- by the medical director.
- and verified by the entire recovery team. - ✔✔in real time
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Heart for valve donors shall be evaluated for risk of:
- Chagas
- Pulmonary embolisms - ✔✔Chagas
✔✔According to AATB Standards for Tissue Banking, the age limit for a deceased
tissue donor is:
- 100
- 65
- Dependent on the weight of the donor
- at the discretion of the tissue bank's medical director - ✔✔at the discretion of the
tissue bank's medical director
✔✔You have been assigned to complete the heart for valve recovery on a 20 day old
donor. The blood sample for infectious disease testing must be collected from:
- the donor
- the donor's mother if the baby was being breastfed
- the donor's mother
- the donor's mother if there is no ante-mortem sample from the donor - ✔✔the donor's
mother
✔✔The donor risk assessment interview (DRAI) should be completed with the:
- significant other/spouse
- legal NOK
- PCP
- most knowledgeable person - ✔✔most knowledgeable person
✔✔You are currently completing the DRAI on a potential donor. The historian stated
that the potential donor used heroin four years ago. What must be clarified before
moving forward with the case?
- The route of drug use. (e.g., ingested, snorter, smoked, injected...)
- if the individual had an infectious disease testing panel ran in the last year.
- if heroin was used at the time of death
- if the potential donor had ever been charged with drug possession - ✔✔The route of
drug use
✔✔You are completing the DRAI and learn that the potential donor lived with a relative
who was HIV positive at the time of death. According to AATB Standards for Tissue
Banking you must
- Proceed with the case if there was no physical or sexual interaction between the two
individuals
- Confirm if the potential donor had recently had an infectious panel ran
- Defer the case
,- Proceed with the case if the donor was being treated with antiviral medications -
✔✔Defer the case
✔✔While completing the DRAI, the historian mentioned the potential donor was not
allowed to donate blood but they were unsure why. They answered no to all high risk
questions and there are no other potential historians. According at AATB Standards for
Tissue Banking, what should you do?
- Move forward because there were no concerning high risk questions
- Move forward because blood banking has very different criteria than tissue banking
- Move forward is there is going to be an autopsy
- Defer the case - ✔✔Defer the case
✔✔Relevant medical records may include which of the following:
- Primary care records
- Emergency services report
- The autopsy report
- Toxicology report
- Infectious disease testing
- Radiography reports
- All of the above - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔You are completing the medical record review of a potential donor that passed after
an extended hospital admission. The donor had blood cultures ran 12 hours before the
time of death and the outcomes are pending. What should you do?
- Defer the case due to unknown culture results.
- Wait to move forward until the cultures are finalized.
- Move forward based on the review of available relevant medical records.
- Screen based on blood cultures ran the week prior. - ✔✔Move forward based on the
review of available relevant medical records
✔✔What document must be included in the donor record if no third-party records are
available?
- A signed document confirming no hospital records were generated.
- A copy of all referral notes.
- The death certificate.
- A copy of the donor's advanced directive. - ✔✔The death certificate
✔✔For birth tissue, what additional records must be reviewed?
- Genetic testing.
- Notes and details through delivery and time of acquisition.
- Notes from the baby's first doctor visit.
- None. Only records created through pregnancy must be reviewed. - ✔✔Notes and
details through delivery and time of acquisition
✔✔The physical assessment must be completed by a
, - medical examiner.
- medical doctor.
- Certified Tissue Bank Specialist.
- responsible person. - ✔✔responsible person
✔✔Under the autopsy section of the physical assessment form, what does a viewing
refer to?
- An external assessment of the deceased individual, evaluation of circumstances,
document and possible toxicology screening
- The family viewing at the funeral home
- A full autopsy
- The coroner observing the tissue recovery - ✔✔An external assessment of the
deceased individual, evaluation of circumstances, document and possible toxicology
screening
✔✔You are completing the physical assessment of a potential tissue donor authorized
for the recovery of bone from the lower extremities only. You are unable to move the
donor to complete the assessment of the posterior of the donor's body. What should you
do?
- Move forward with the recovery as no tissue is being recovered from the back and
note "unable to visualize."
- Move forward with the recovery because there are no signs of high-risk.
- Contact the donor's primary care physician to ask if there were any recent concerns.
- Defer the case as a complete physical assessment could not be completed. - ✔✔Defer
the case as a complete physical assessment could not be completed
✔✔Which of the following is NOT an acceptable reason for jaundice?
- Alcoholic hepatitis.
- Unknown etiology.
- Alcoholic cirrhosis.
- Advanced stage liver and multi-system organ failure. - ✔✔Unknown etiology
✔✔Findings on the physical assessment should not conflict with the information
provided in the
- Death referral from the hospital.
- Donor Risk Assessment Interview (DRAI).
- Hospital medical record.
- All of the above. - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔Case documentation, including the physical assessment should be documented
- within 24 hours of the case.
- in real time.
- by the medical director.
- and verified by the entire recovery team. - ✔✔in real time
