CPTC EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE JUST
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Question: The family's religion is a definite factor as to whether a family should even be
offered the option of donation.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER✔✔False
Question: If the legal next of kin disagree about donation when first approached, the
appropriate action is to __________________________________.
a. Attempt to persuade the negative decision to a positive
b. Decline the donation
c. Side with the positive decision maker
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d. Allow them time to discuss the donation privately and return later for a decision -
ANSWER✔✔a. Attempt to persuade the negative decision to a positive
Question: Prior to offering the option of organ donation to a family, you must be sure that they
understand ______________________.
a. It costs them nothing as a donor family
b. John will look the same after donation as he did before
c. Their loved one is dead
d. It will not delay the funeral arrangements - ANSWER✔✔c. Their loved one is dead
Question: Media representatives can be entrusted with confidential details about a donation
"off the record".
a. True
b. False - ANSWER✔✔False
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Question: As practiced, a family does not have the option of revoking a loved one's signed
donor card.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER✔✔True
Question: Members of the Orthodox Jewish Sect will never be donors
a. True
b. False - ANSWER✔✔False
Question: Warm ischemia is defined as ____________________.
a. Total time on the preservation machine
b. The total time between cessation of blood flow through the organ and the establishment of
effective hypothermic temperature
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c. The operative time required to remove the organ
d. Time from cardiac arrest to completion of insitu flush - ANSWER✔✔b. The total time
between cessation of blood flow through the organ and the establishment of effective
hypothermic temperature
Question: 1. Continuous hypothermic dynamic preservation provides all of the following
except:
a. Reduction of metabolic rate
b. Energy substrates
c. Removal of toxic wastes
d. The most effective method of preservation
e. Maintenance of a patent vascular system - ANSWER✔✔c. Removal of toxic wastes
Question: When opening a donor in surgery, which field is most likely to become
contaminated?
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