CST Practice Boards Exam Form A & B 2019

Which of the following is considered the most important skill for a surgical technologist? - Management of specimen - Management is sponges - Maintaining an orderly set up - Ensuring adequate lighting - Answer- Management of specimen The surgical incision that allows for the BEST visualization for a Billroth I procedure is - McBurney's - Pfannenstiel - Midline - Subcostal - Answer- Midline During the postoperative phase, the personnel primarily responsible for transporting soiled instrumentation to decontamination is the - Housekeeping staff - Anesthesia technician - Surgical Technologist - Central sterile processing - Answer- Surgical technologist CSF is formed in the lateral ventricles of a patient and may not properly flow into the third ventricle through the foramen of - Magendie into the fourth ventricle. - Monro into the fourth ventricle. - Sylvius into the fourth ventricle. - Luschka into the fourth ventricle. - Answer- Sylvius into the fourth ventricle. During an excisional biopsy of sentinel nodes, the surgical technologist should prepare specimens using which of the following methods? - Place on a Raytec to be handed off to the circulator. - Separate on Telfa and pass to the circulator. - Place in separate containers and identify. - Place in specimen container held by the circulator using a hemostat. - Answer- Place in separate containers and identify. A surgical technologist received the following medications onto the sterile field: 0.9% sodium chloride, bacitracin 1 gm, and 0.25% Marcaine with epinephrine. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate way to label these medications? - saline + bacitracin and .25 Marcaine + epinephrine - NACL + 1 gm baci and 0.25 marc w/epi - saline + baci and 0.25% marc with epi - 0.9% saline + 1 gm bacitracin and 0.25% Marcaine with epinephrine - Answer- 0.9% saline + 1 gm bacitracin and 0.25% Marcaine with epinephrine A