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NBCE: Minor Surgery & Proctology Oregon Board
Exam Questions With 100% Verified Solutions
Patients with known blood dycrasias are HIGH RISK candidates. Some
examples include: - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Hemophilia (no clotting factors)
Leukemia
Simple anemia
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Patients take Coumadin or Heparin as a blood thinner which will
increase bleeding because the clotting ability is compromised. HIGH
RISK. Patients who take these mediations have _________, ______,
________. - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Stroke, Arterial prosthesis,
thrombophlebitis
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Patients with ________ and ________ should ELIMINATED from
minor surgery procedures. - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Pulmonary hypertension
Congestive heart failure (CHF)
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14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Patients with ______ frequently take digoxin, lanoxin, or digitalis. -
. . ANSWER ✓✓ Arrhythmia
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Patients with respiratory complaints constitute another HIGH RISK
group because there is a decrease in oxygen uptake and resultant
acidosis. These conditions include: - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Asthma
Emphysema
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Nervous disorders are ______ high risk than Systemic Diseases -
. . ANSWER ✓✓ less
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Any elective surgery must be preceded by a proper lab analysis.
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This must include: - . . ANSWER ✓✓ clotting time
CBC
UA
Prothrombin
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Patient's occupation and how surgery will impact on his/her post
operative recovery should be considered. There is HIGH RISK of
infection or secondary trauma with: - . . ANSWER ✓✓ construction
workers carpenters refuse workers sewer workers gardeners landscapers
fisherman butchers janitors farmers
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
________ are often a problem in hospital minor surgery procedures and
not DC outpatient procedures (advantage) - . . ANSWER ✓✓
Nosocomial Staph infection
10% Sterile fields:
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Instrument sterilization technique that is effective, kills bacteria and
spores, and is accomplished by boiling water under pressure - . .
ANSWER ✓✓ Steam autclaving
10% Sterile fields:
Steam autoclaving kills vegetative bacteria and most resistant dry spores
in _________. - . . ANSWER ✓✓ 13 minutes
120 degrees Celsius
750 mmHg/14.5 psi
10% Sterile fields:
A disadvantage to this method of instrument sterilization is that you
cannot clean sharp instruments such as scissors, it dulls them. - . .
ANSWER ✓✓ Steam autoclaving
10% Sterile fields:
The most effective method of instrument sterilization that kills both
bacteria and spores, does not dull instruments, but is too dangerous and
not cost effective. - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Gas autoclaving
10% Sterile fields:
NBCE: Minor Surgery & Proctology Oregon Board
Exam Questions With 100% Verified Solutions
Patients with known blood dycrasias are HIGH RISK candidates. Some
examples include: - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Hemophilia (no clotting factors)
Leukemia
Simple anemia
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Patients take Coumadin or Heparin as a blood thinner which will
increase bleeding because the clotting ability is compromised. HIGH
RISK. Patients who take these mediations have _________, ______,
________. - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Stroke, Arterial prosthesis,
thrombophlebitis
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Patients with ________ and ________ should ELIMINATED from
minor surgery procedures. - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Pulmonary hypertension
Congestive heart failure (CHF)
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14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Patients with ______ frequently take digoxin, lanoxin, or digitalis. -
. . ANSWER ✓✓ Arrhythmia
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Patients with respiratory complaints constitute another HIGH RISK
group because there is a decrease in oxygen uptake and resultant
acidosis. These conditions include: - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Asthma
Emphysema
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Nervous disorders are ______ high risk than Systemic Diseases -
. . ANSWER ✓✓ less
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Any elective surgery must be preceded by a proper lab analysis.
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This must include: - . . ANSWER ✓✓ clotting time
CBC
UA
Prothrombin
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
Patient's occupation and how surgery will impact on his/her post
operative recovery should be considered. There is HIGH RISK of
infection or secondary trauma with: - . . ANSWER ✓✓ construction
workers carpenters refuse workers sewer workers gardeners landscapers
fisherman butchers janitors farmers
14% Risks, complications, and legal limitations:
________ are often a problem in hospital minor surgery procedures and
not DC outpatient procedures (advantage) - . . ANSWER ✓✓
Nosocomial Staph infection
10% Sterile fields:
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Instrument sterilization technique that is effective, kills bacteria and
spores, and is accomplished by boiling water under pressure - . .
ANSWER ✓✓ Steam autclaving
10% Sterile fields:
Steam autoclaving kills vegetative bacteria and most resistant dry spores
in _________. - . . ANSWER ✓✓ 13 minutes
120 degrees Celsius
750 mmHg/14.5 psi
10% Sterile fields:
A disadvantage to this method of instrument sterilization is that you
cannot clean sharp instruments such as scissors, it dulls them. - . .
ANSWER ✓✓ Steam autoclaving
10% Sterile fields:
The most effective method of instrument sterilization that kills both
bacteria and spores, does not dull instruments, but is too dangerous and
not cost effective. - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Gas autoclaving
10% Sterile fields:
