CST Certification Surgical Specialties and
Procedures (General Surgery) Complete
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1. Who is the certifying body for the CST exam? - ANSWER AST
2. Which of the following instrument categorizations is used for exploring a
structure, opening, or tract? - ANSWER Probing and Dilating
3. When performing the surgical scrub, hands and arms are considered: -
ANSWER Surgically clean
4. What can be accomplished when positioning the patient for a thryoidectomy
to facilitate exposure of the surgical site?
A) Rotate head to the left
B) Rolled sheet placed under shoulders
C) Trendenlenburg position
D) Bolster placed under axilla - ANSWER Rolled sheet placed under
shoulders
5. A Sengstaken-Blakemore tube is used when treating:
A) Prostate cancer
B) Coronary artery disease
C) Esophageal varices
D) Peptic ulcers - ANSWER Esophageal varices
,6. Omental flaps, falciform ligament. or Gerota's fascia flaps may be used to:
A) Repair abdominal defects
B) Control liver hemorrhage
C) Repair pelvic defects
D) Control splenic hemorrhage - ANSWER Control liver hemorrhage
7. If the surgeon's preference card listed a Bookwalter or Omnitract, what type
of instrument would be used?
A) Hemostastic clamps
B) Self-retaining retractors
C) Biliary tract instrument
D) Stapling device - ANSWER Self-retaining retractor
8. The procedure performed for decompression of the cecum due to colonic
obstruction is:
A) Gastrostomy
B) Colostomy
C) Cecostomy
D) Ileostomy - ANSWER Cecostomy
9. Pancreatojejunostomy is performed for:
A) Pancreatic pseudo cysts
B) Cancer of the cecum
C) Hepatitis
D) Obstruction of the duodenum - ANSWER Pancreatic pseudo cysts
10.The incision used for splenectomy is:
A) Midline transverse
B) Thoracoabdominal
C) Subcostal
D) Lower paramedian - ANSWER Subcostal
,11.A Silverman biopsy needle is used for a/an (Blank) biopsy.
A) Lung
B) Cervical
C) Liver
D) Kidney - ANSWER Liver
12.Who certifies surgical technologists? - ANSWER NBSTSA
13.A hernia that occurs within Hesselbach's triangle and does not have a sac is
called a/an (blank) hernia.
A) Direct
B) Indirect
C) Femoral
D) Hiatal - ANSWER Direct
14.The defect in an inguinal hernia occurs in the (Blank) muscle:
A) Scarpa's fascia
B) Internal Oblique
C) Transversalis
D) Cremaster - ANSWER Transversalis
15.Which of the following is a type of oblique incision?
A) Midline
B) Kocher
C) Paramedian
D) Pfanneenstiel - ANSWER Kocher
16.A hemolytic disease of the newborn is known is called:
A) Thalassemia
B) Polycythemia
C) Erythroblastosis fetalis
D) Hemolytic anemia - ANSWER Erythroblastosis fetalis
, 17.All of the following are intestinal instruments except:
A) Allen forceps
B) Best clamps
C) Heaney forceps
D) Doyen forcepts - ANSWER Heaney forceps
18.The instrument used for common duct exploration during an open
cholecystectomy is:
A) Bakes dilator
B) Fogarty catheter
C) Schnift forceps
D) Ochsner trocar - ANSWER Bakes dilator
19.The incision commonly used for an appendectomy is:
A) Kocher
B) McBurney
C) Pfannenstiel
D) Paramedian - ANSWER McBurney
Glisson's capsule is the:
A) Lateral portion of the spllen
B) Junction of the pancreas and duodenum
C) External covering of the liver
D) Renal fascia - ANSWER External covering of the liver
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is performed to:
A) Assess liver function
B) Remove Common bile duct
C) Visualize biliary and pancreatic tracts
Procedures (General Surgery) Complete
Exam Study Questions with 100% Correct
Answers | Brand New Version
1. Who is the certifying body for the CST exam? - ANSWER AST
2. Which of the following instrument categorizations is used for exploring a
structure, opening, or tract? - ANSWER Probing and Dilating
3. When performing the surgical scrub, hands and arms are considered: -
ANSWER Surgically clean
4. What can be accomplished when positioning the patient for a thryoidectomy
to facilitate exposure of the surgical site?
A) Rotate head to the left
B) Rolled sheet placed under shoulders
C) Trendenlenburg position
D) Bolster placed under axilla - ANSWER Rolled sheet placed under
shoulders
5. A Sengstaken-Blakemore tube is used when treating:
A) Prostate cancer
B) Coronary artery disease
C) Esophageal varices
D) Peptic ulcers - ANSWER Esophageal varices
,6. Omental flaps, falciform ligament. or Gerota's fascia flaps may be used to:
A) Repair abdominal defects
B) Control liver hemorrhage
C) Repair pelvic defects
D) Control splenic hemorrhage - ANSWER Control liver hemorrhage
7. If the surgeon's preference card listed a Bookwalter or Omnitract, what type
of instrument would be used?
A) Hemostastic clamps
B) Self-retaining retractors
C) Biliary tract instrument
D) Stapling device - ANSWER Self-retaining retractor
8. The procedure performed for decompression of the cecum due to colonic
obstruction is:
A) Gastrostomy
B) Colostomy
C) Cecostomy
D) Ileostomy - ANSWER Cecostomy
9. Pancreatojejunostomy is performed for:
A) Pancreatic pseudo cysts
B) Cancer of the cecum
C) Hepatitis
D) Obstruction of the duodenum - ANSWER Pancreatic pseudo cysts
10.The incision used for splenectomy is:
A) Midline transverse
B) Thoracoabdominal
C) Subcostal
D) Lower paramedian - ANSWER Subcostal
,11.A Silverman biopsy needle is used for a/an (Blank) biopsy.
A) Lung
B) Cervical
C) Liver
D) Kidney - ANSWER Liver
12.Who certifies surgical technologists? - ANSWER NBSTSA
13.A hernia that occurs within Hesselbach's triangle and does not have a sac is
called a/an (blank) hernia.
A) Direct
B) Indirect
C) Femoral
D) Hiatal - ANSWER Direct
14.The defect in an inguinal hernia occurs in the (Blank) muscle:
A) Scarpa's fascia
B) Internal Oblique
C) Transversalis
D) Cremaster - ANSWER Transversalis
15.Which of the following is a type of oblique incision?
A) Midline
B) Kocher
C) Paramedian
D) Pfanneenstiel - ANSWER Kocher
16.A hemolytic disease of the newborn is known is called:
A) Thalassemia
B) Polycythemia
C) Erythroblastosis fetalis
D) Hemolytic anemia - ANSWER Erythroblastosis fetalis
, 17.All of the following are intestinal instruments except:
A) Allen forceps
B) Best clamps
C) Heaney forceps
D) Doyen forcepts - ANSWER Heaney forceps
18.The instrument used for common duct exploration during an open
cholecystectomy is:
A) Bakes dilator
B) Fogarty catheter
C) Schnift forceps
D) Ochsner trocar - ANSWER Bakes dilator
19.The incision commonly used for an appendectomy is:
A) Kocher
B) McBurney
C) Pfannenstiel
D) Paramedian - ANSWER McBurney
Glisson's capsule is the:
A) Lateral portion of the spllen
B) Junction of the pancreas and duodenum
C) External covering of the liver
D) Renal fascia - ANSWER External covering of the liver
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is performed to:
A) Assess liver function
B) Remove Common bile duct
C) Visualize biliary and pancreatic tracts
