CST EXAM REVIEW SPRING UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

CST EXAM REVIEW SPRING UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Which of the following grafts is harvested to perform a coronary artery bypass?
Answer:
Mammary artery

Question:
2. The various methods of scrubbing, timed, counted, stroke are all intended to:
Answer:
Diminish resident flora

Question:
3. When performing a total hysterectomy, the following organs are removed:
Answer:
Uterus and cervix

Question:
4. Donning Or attire refers to:
Answer:
Scrubs, cap, booties

Question:
5. Cases requiring the surgical team to wear space suits such as orthopedic surgery are considered to be:
Answer:
High risk

Question:
6. Why is post-operative recovery time increased in obese patients?
Answer:
Retention of anesthetic agent

Question:
7. Which of the following pressure ulcer stages represents an ulcer that has a full-thickness defect through
the skin and soft tissues, and is covered by sloughing or eschar?
Answer:
Unstageable

Question:
8. During and anal fistula or anal fissure repair, what is the instrument used to measure the dept and
direction of the sinus or fistula?
Answer:
Probe

,Question:
9. Which of the following correctly states why a three-way Foley catheter is inserted after transurethral
resection of the prostate (TURP)?
Answer:
Hemostasis

Question:
10. During any surgical procedure, instruments need to always be handed to the surgical team in a position
of use. When passing instruments with rings, they should be passed by holding them by the:
Answer:
box lock

Question:
11. A TRAM flap is performed together with:
Answer:
Mastectomy

Question:
12. After gowning and gloving the surgeon, the surgeon activates a Duraprep applicator and proceeds to
prep the patient. Upon completion of the prep, what should the surgical technologist initiate next?
Answer:
The surgeon should be re-gowned and re-gloved

Question:
13. While preparing for a laser procedure, the surgical technologist gather laser specific equipment
inclusive of:
Answer:
Black chromium instruments

Question:
14. Intraoperatively a patient always loses heat into the environment. This loss is referred to as:
Answer:
Radiation

Question:
15. The Patient's Bill of Rights clearly defines patients as being:
Answer:
the customer

Question:
16. During a femoropopliteal bypass, which of the following retractors is used to provide better exposure
of the vessels?
Answer:
Beckman

Question:
17. Use of PMMA (bone cement) during hip arthroplasty is associated with which of the following?

, Answer:
Cardiac arrhythmia

Question:
18. Diagnosing coronary artery disease is accomplished by performing a/an:
Answer:
Cardiac catheterization

Question:
19. To treat stomach cancer the following surgical procedure is performed to remove the distal portion of
the stomach and connect it to the jejunum:
Answer:
Billroth II

Question:
20. What is the indication for the insertion of a ventricular peritoneal shunt?
Answer:
Too much CSF in the ventricles (hydrocephalus)

Question:
21. The Sterrad is a plasma sterilization system that uses the following chemical solution:
Answer:
Hydrogen peroxide

Question:
22. When a peritoneal sac, omentum or abdominal viscera protrude through the abdominal wall, it
indicates the presence of a/an:
Answer:
Umbilical hernia

Question:
23. When asked by the surgeon to place a mydriatic solution in the OS, the surgical technologist places a
drop in the ___________ eye and the medication will __________ the pupil.
Answer:
Left eye, dilate

Question:
24. Which of the following describes healing that occurs from the inner/center to the outer surface of a
wound, while leaving the wound open?
Answer:
Secondary intention

Question:
25. A lead hand is used to:
Answer:
Retract fingers and thumb