NBCE MINOR SURGERY & PROCTOLOGY OREGON BOARD EXAM 2025 WITH ACTUAL CORRECT QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED DETAILED ANSWERS |FREQUENTLY TESTED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS|ALREADY GRADED A+|NEWEST|LATEST UPDATE|GUARANTEED PASS

NBCE MINOR SURGERY & PROCTOLOGY
OREGON BOARD EXAM 2025 WITH ACTUAL
CORRECT QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
DETAILED ANSWERS |FREQUENTLY TESTED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS|ALREADY
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10% Sterile fields:

_____ is a bacteriostatic agent that was widely used but is now falling from favor due to
potential toxicity and TERATOGENICITY. It is marked under the name PHisoHex.

Hexachlorophene

15% Local anesthetics:

All local anesthetics are ____.
A 1% concentration can block stimuli of pain but leave the sensation of _______ and ______.

Toxic
Touch
Pressure

15% Local anesthetics:

Three main pharmacologic properties that are important to consider in delivering local
anesthesia include:

onset of action
effectiveness
duration of anesthesia



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,15% Local anesthetics:

The higher the concentration of the anesthetic the ______ the risk.

greater

15% Local anesthetics:

A maximum dosage for those anesthetics most commonly used by chiropractors would not
exceed ____cc for an average adult.

The maximum allowable dose of 1% lidocaine with epinephrine is ____cc.

Pregnant females should not be given local anesthetics.

30
50

15% Local anesthetics:

Lidocaine/Xylocaine (1%)
- Onset of action: 4-10 min
- Duration: 60-120 min
- Maximal allowable dose: _____cc

30

15% Local anesthetics:

Mepivacaine/Carbocaine (1%)
- Onset of action: 6-10 min
- Duration: 90-180 min
- Maximal allowable dose: _____cc

35

15% Local anesthetics:

Procaine/Novocaine (1%)
- Onset of action: 5-10 min
- Duration: 60-120 min
- Maximal allowable dose: _____cc

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,25

15% Local anesthetics:

Bupivacaine/Marcaine (0.25%)
- Onset of action: 8-12 min
- Duration: 240-280 min
- Maximal allowable dose: _____cc

80

15% Local anesthetics:

TAC
- Onset of action: 5-10 min
- Duration: 20 min
- Maximal allowable dose: _____cc

5-10

15% Local anesthetics:

_________ in concentration of either 1:100,000 or 1:200,000 is added to local anesthetics as a
VASOCONSTRICTOR.

Advantages:
It keeps the anesthetic in the surgical site longer therefore less anesthetic is needed = less
toxicity. It also minimizing the amount of bleeding at the operative site.

Disadvantages:
Potentiates wound infection. Cannot be used in distal end organs because of risk of necrosis.
Risk of small bleeder going unnoticed = postoperative hemorrhaging.

Epinephrine

15% Local anesthetics:

Local anesthetic is introduced using a ___, ___, ___ gauge needle. A 21 gauge is used for
venipuncture and an 18 gauge needle is used for joint aspirations.

25, 26, 27


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, 15% Local anesthetics:

Do not used alcohol swabs as a pre injectable. It is more prudent to use ______ based
substance such as POVIDONE, BETADINE, or MERTHIOLATE.

Iodine.

15% Local anesthetics:

A topical skin refrigerant as a pre-injectable is advantageous. The most common of these is
________. This helps minimize the effect of an injection for patients that have a fear of needles.

Ethyl Chloride

15% Local anesthetics:

When administering a local anesthetic it is always important to pull back on the ______ of the
syringe to see if the needle punctured an artery.

It is also best to introduce the anesthetic "________"

plunger
on the move

15% Local anesthetics:

The three types of conductions for local anesthesia include:

direct infiltration, field block, nerve block

15% Local anesthetics:

______ is a method of introducing a local anesthetic where a portal of entry has been created
by trauma.

Advantage: bypasses the most painful aspect of anesthesia

Disadvantage: compromised shape which will become more distorted with anesthesia

Direct infiltration

15% Local anesthetics:



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