surgical technology for the surgical
technologist - Chapter 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Vesalius - CORRECT ANSWER - 1500 A.D. - he was the Father of Modern Anatomy who
challenged Galen's theories that stood for 1500 years, dissected human cadavers
Jenner - CORRECT ANSWER - inventor of the vaccination for smallpox
Pasteur - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of microbiology, virology, and immunology
Lister - CORRECT ANSWER - Developed technique of antiseptic surgery
Halsted - CORRECT ANSWER - Developed meticulous closure of wounds
Cushing - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of neurosurgery; reduced mortality rate for
mengiomas from 96% to 5%
Roentgen - CORRECT ANSWER - developed the x-ray machine
Cooley - CORRECT ANSWER - Perfected the heart-lung machine; performed first US heart
transplant and first total artificial heart implant
DeBakey - CORRECT ANSWER - Developed the first ventricular assist pump
Late 19th century - CORRECT ANSWER - "surgery beadle" are employed in the OR
, 1959 - CORRECT ANSWER - AORN forms survey group to study the needs of the OR
technicians
Dec 1967 - CORRECT ANSWER - AORN publishes Teaching the Operating Room
Technician
Feb 1969 - CORRECT ANSWER - AORN creates critical proposal to creat AORT
July 19-20 1969 - CORRECT ANSWER - New York Conference for formal organization
AORT
Dec 1970 - CORRECT ANSWER - AORT selects certification over licensure and gives first
examination
1973 - CORRECT ANSWER - AORT and AORN split and the National Advisory Board is
dissolved
1974 - CORRECT ANSWER - ARC on Education for the ORT appointed (Commission on
Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs [CAAHEP] system)
1978 - CORRECT ANSWER - At AORT National Conference AORT changes name to
Association of Surgical Technologists; O.R. Tech magazine changes to The Surgical
Technologist
1980 - CORRECT ANSWER - california changed name to Surgical Technologist
2006 - CORRECT ANSWER - Liaison Council on Certification for the Surgical Technologist
(LCC-ST), changes name to National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting
(NBSTSA)
emergent - CORRECT ANSWER - surgical pathology threatening life or limb
technologist - Chapter 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Vesalius - CORRECT ANSWER - 1500 A.D. - he was the Father of Modern Anatomy who
challenged Galen's theories that stood for 1500 years, dissected human cadavers
Jenner - CORRECT ANSWER - inventor of the vaccination for smallpox
Pasteur - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of microbiology, virology, and immunology
Lister - CORRECT ANSWER - Developed technique of antiseptic surgery
Halsted - CORRECT ANSWER - Developed meticulous closure of wounds
Cushing - CORRECT ANSWER - Father of neurosurgery; reduced mortality rate for
mengiomas from 96% to 5%
Roentgen - CORRECT ANSWER - developed the x-ray machine
Cooley - CORRECT ANSWER - Perfected the heart-lung machine; performed first US heart
transplant and first total artificial heart implant
DeBakey - CORRECT ANSWER - Developed the first ventricular assist pump
Late 19th century - CORRECT ANSWER - "surgery beadle" are employed in the OR
, 1959 - CORRECT ANSWER - AORN forms survey group to study the needs of the OR
technicians
Dec 1967 - CORRECT ANSWER - AORN publishes Teaching the Operating Room
Technician
Feb 1969 - CORRECT ANSWER - AORN creates critical proposal to creat AORT
July 19-20 1969 - CORRECT ANSWER - New York Conference for formal organization
AORT
Dec 1970 - CORRECT ANSWER - AORT selects certification over licensure and gives first
examination
1973 - CORRECT ANSWER - AORT and AORN split and the National Advisory Board is
dissolved
1974 - CORRECT ANSWER - ARC on Education for the ORT appointed (Commission on
Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs [CAAHEP] system)
1978 - CORRECT ANSWER - At AORT National Conference AORT changes name to
Association of Surgical Technologists; O.R. Tech magazine changes to The Surgical
Technologist
1980 - CORRECT ANSWER - california changed name to Surgical Technologist
2006 - CORRECT ANSWER - Liaison Council on Certification for the Surgical Technologist
(LCC-ST), changes name to National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting
(NBSTSA)
emergent - CORRECT ANSWER - surgical pathology threatening life or limb
