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An 85-year-old patient is currently in Ensure all bony prominences are sufficiently
the operating room under general padded.
anesthesia for a right hip Rationale: Elderly patients are likely to have
arthroplasty. Which of the following pressure ulcers develop if bony prominences are
will best help to prevent not cushioned and protected from the hard surface
perioperative positioning injuries? of the operating room table. Their skin is delicate
Ensure all bony prominences are and fragile due to their age, and other conditions
sufficiently padded. such as diabetes, or poor circulation.
Make sure that the implant is
appropriately sized for the patient.
Be attentive to intraoperative signs
of discomfort or distress.
Use a body warming blanket during
the pre-operative phase.
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The surgical technologist is opening Discard the item and retrieve a new one.
for a procedure and notices the
wrapped item she just opened has a Rationale: If the integrity of the package has been
hole in the outer layer. Which of the compromised, it should not be taken on the sterile
following is the proper course of field. When in doubt throw it out and get a new
action? one. If the package has a hole it should never be
Open the inner layer onto the sterile used. If it was taken onto the sterile field it would
field. contaminate the whole field.
Discard the item and retrieve a new
one.
Check the indicator to ensure the
item has been sterilized.
Place the package on a prep stand
and open away from the sterile field.
Before medications or solutions are Date, Medication, Dosage
poured onto the sterile field, the Rationale: Correct patient and procedure are the
surgical technologist should verify responsibility of the circulator prior to obtaining
which of the following? (Select the medication. Expiration date, name of medication
three (3) correct answers.) and dosage must be communicated during transfer
Patient of medication by the circulator and surgical
Date technician to reduce medication errors.
Medication
Dosage
Procedure
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The surgical technologist has just The light source was left on and the drape is
completed scrubbing for a right igniting.
knee arthroscopy. As the surgeon
takes down the tourniquet, and the Rationale: The light source with the fiber-optic
surgical technologist begins to beam, along with a paper drape, would be where
breakdown the back table, a plume the smoke plume was coming from because of the
of smoke is seen coming from the heat. Iodine and lactated ringers are not a
sterile field. Which of the following is flammable liquids and would not be the source of
the most likely source of this smoke? the heat. A faulty ground pad would not be the
The light source was left on and the source of the heat since it's not working properly.
drape is igniting.
The iodine is still damp and is igniting
from use of the cautery pencil.
Lactated ringers was used for
irrigation instead of glycine.
A faulty grounding pad is in place.
Before medications or solutions are Date, Medication, Dosage
poured onto the sterile field, the Rationale: Correct patient and procedure are the
surgical technologist should verify responsibility of the circulator prior to obtaining
which of the following? (Select the medication. Expiration date, name of medication
three (3) correct answers.) and dosage must be communicated during transfer
Patient of medication by the circulator and surgical
Date technician to reduce medication errors.
Medication
Dosage
Procedure
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The surgical technologist has just The light source was left on and the drape is
completed scrubbing for a right igniting.
knee arthroscopy. As the surgeon Rationale: The light source with the fiber-optic
takes down the tourniquet, and the beam, along with a paper drape, would be where
surgical technologist begins to the smoke plume was coming from because of the
breakdown the back table, a plume heat. Iodine and lactated ringers are not a
of smoke is seen coming from the flammable liquids and would not be the source of
sterile field. Which of the following is the heat. A faulty ground pad would not be the
the most likely source of this smoke? source of the heat since it's not working properly.
The light source was left on and the
drape is igniting.
The iodine is still damp and is igniting
from use of the cautery pencil.
Lactated ringers was used for
irrigation instead of glycine.
A faulty grounding pad is in place.
When sterilizing an unwrapped, non- 3-4 minute exposure time, 270F
porous item with no lumen in an
immediate use sterilization unit,
which of the following parameters
must be met for sterilization with
gravity displacement steam? (Select
the two (2) correct answers.)
3-4 minute exposure time
270o F
10 minute exposure time
132o F
4 minute drying time
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An 85-year-old patient is currently in Ensure all bony prominences are sufficiently
the operating room under general padded.
anesthesia for a right hip Rationale: Elderly patients are likely to have
arthroplasty. Which of the following pressure ulcers develop if bony prominences are
will best help to prevent not cushioned and protected from the hard surface
perioperative positioning injuries? of the operating room table. Their skin is delicate
Ensure all bony prominences are and fragile due to their age, and other conditions
sufficiently padded. such as diabetes, or poor circulation.
Make sure that the implant is
appropriately sized for the patient.
Be attentive to intraoperative signs
of discomfort or distress.
Use a body warming blanket during
the pre-operative phase.
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The surgical technologist is opening Discard the item and retrieve a new one.
for a procedure and notices the
wrapped item she just opened has a Rationale: If the integrity of the package has been
hole in the outer layer. Which of the compromised, it should not be taken on the sterile
following is the proper course of field. When in doubt throw it out and get a new
action? one. If the package has a hole it should never be
Open the inner layer onto the sterile used. If it was taken onto the sterile field it would
field. contaminate the whole field.
Discard the item and retrieve a new
one.
Check the indicator to ensure the
item has been sterilized.
Place the package on a prep stand
and open away from the sterile field.
Before medications or solutions are Date, Medication, Dosage
poured onto the sterile field, the Rationale: Correct patient and procedure are the
surgical technologist should verify responsibility of the circulator prior to obtaining
which of the following? (Select the medication. Expiration date, name of medication
three (3) correct answers.) and dosage must be communicated during transfer
Patient of medication by the circulator and surgical
Date technician to reduce medication errors.
Medication
Dosage
Procedure
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The surgical technologist has just The light source was left on and the drape is
completed scrubbing for a right igniting.
knee arthroscopy. As the surgeon
takes down the tourniquet, and the Rationale: The light source with the fiber-optic
surgical technologist begins to beam, along with a paper drape, would be where
breakdown the back table, a plume the smoke plume was coming from because of the
of smoke is seen coming from the heat. Iodine and lactated ringers are not a
sterile field. Which of the following is flammable liquids and would not be the source of
the most likely source of this smoke? the heat. A faulty ground pad would not be the
The light source was left on and the source of the heat since it's not working properly.
drape is igniting.
The iodine is still damp and is igniting
from use of the cautery pencil.
Lactated ringers was used for
irrigation instead of glycine.
A faulty grounding pad is in place.
Before medications or solutions are Date, Medication, Dosage
poured onto the sterile field, the Rationale: Correct patient and procedure are the
surgical technologist should verify responsibility of the circulator prior to obtaining
which of the following? (Select the medication. Expiration date, name of medication
three (3) correct answers.) and dosage must be communicated during transfer
Patient of medication by the circulator and surgical
Date technician to reduce medication errors.
Medication
Dosage
Procedure
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The surgical technologist has just The light source was left on and the drape is
completed scrubbing for a right igniting.
knee arthroscopy. As the surgeon Rationale: The light source with the fiber-optic
takes down the tourniquet, and the beam, along with a paper drape, would be where
surgical technologist begins to the smoke plume was coming from because of the
breakdown the back table, a plume heat. Iodine and lactated ringers are not a
of smoke is seen coming from the flammable liquids and would not be the source of
sterile field. Which of the following is the heat. A faulty ground pad would not be the
the most likely source of this smoke? source of the heat since it's not working properly.
The light source was left on and the
drape is igniting.
The iodine is still damp and is igniting
from use of the cautery pencil.
Lactated ringers was used for
irrigation instead of glycine.
A faulty grounding pad is in place.
When sterilizing an unwrapped, non- 3-4 minute exposure time, 270F
porous item with no lumen in an
immediate use sterilization unit,
which of the following parameters
must be met for sterilization with
gravity displacement steam? (Select
the two (2) correct answers.)
3-4 minute exposure time
270o F
10 minute exposure time
132o F
4 minute drying time
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