CRQ Pediatric Surgery

Question 1

What procedure is performed to reconstruct the external ear?

A) Rotation Flap

B) Lobularplasty

C) External auditory fixation

D) Otoplasty

Answer 1

D) Otoplasty

Question 2

The mechanical strength of a weak eye muscle due to strabismus in a pediatric patient can be corrected by all of the following EXCEPT

A) tucking

B) advancement

C) recession

D) resection

Answer 2

C) recession

Question 3

Antibiotic that can cause staining and hypoplasia of the enamel of the developing teeth in children and should not be administered.

A) Tetracycline

B) Sulfonamides

C) Keflex

D) PCN

Answer 3

A) Tetracycline

Question 4

Orchiopexy is performed to treat

A) testicular cancer

B) torsion of the testicle

C) congenital undescended testicle

D) both B and C

Answer 4

C) congenital undescended testicle

Question 5

What surgery is performed to treat otitis media?

A) Myringotomy

B) Adenoidectomy

C) Tympanoplasty

D) Tonsillectomy

Answer 5

A) Myringotomy

Question 6

The condition involving premature closure of infant cranial suture lines is referred to as

A) cranioplasty

B) stereotactic surgery

C) craniosynostosis

D) transsphenoidal hypophysectomy

Answer 6

C) craniosynostosis

Question 7

What problem is most commonly seen in the pediatric postoperative patient?

A) Hypotension

B) Airway impairment

C) Hypothermia

D) Metabolic depression

Answer 7

B) Airway impairment

Question 8

The condition evidenced by incomplete closure of the vertebral arches in newborns is

A) hydrocephalus

B) encephalocele

C) spina bifida

D) myelomeningocele

Answer 8

C) spina bifida

Question 9

Nonclosure at birth of the duct that carries blood from the pulmonary artery directly to the aorta is termed

A) tetralogy of Fallot

B) coarctation of the aorta

C) patent ductus arteriosus

D) anomalous venous return

Answer 9

C) patent ductus arteriosus

Question 10

Pediatric medications are prescribed according to the patients weight in

A) kilograms

B) pounds

C) grams

D) neograms

Answer 10

A) kilograms

Question 11

A ventricular atrial shunt, a ventricular peritoneal shunt, and an in vitro shunt are performed for the condition called

A) decompression of the cranial nerves

B) hydrocephalus

C) cranial neuroma

D) intracranial aneurysm

Answer 11

B) hydrocephalus

Question 12

The most common defects tha occur when the embryonic development of the central nervous system (spinal cord and brain) fail to close completely is spina bifida, aencephaly, and encephlocele. This condition is called

A) tetrology of Fallot

B) ventricular septal defect

C) vertebral recession

D) neural defect

Answer 12

D) neural defect

Question 13

A congenital malformation of the chest wall with a pronounced funnel-shaped depression is called

A) truncus arteriosus

B) pectus excavatum

C) pectus carinatum

D) costochondral separation

Answer 13

B) pectus excavatum

Question 14

Newborn vomiting, free of bile and projectile in nature, is indicative of

A) atresia of the esophagus

B) pyloric stenosis

C) volvulus

D) intussusception

Answer 14

B) pyloric stenosis

Question 15

A medical term used for the condition characterized by fusion of the fingers and toes is

A) club hand and foot

B) syndactyle

C) mermaid syndrome

D) trigger finger

Answer 15

B) syndactyle

Question 16

A Wilm’s tumor, the most common intraabdominal childhood tumor is known as a/n

A) nephroblastoma

B) neuroblastoma

C) aganglionis colon

D) intussusception

Answer 16

A) nephroblastoma

Question 17

Antibiotic that can cause an excess of bilirubin the blood (kernicterus) of neonates.

A) Sulfonamides

B) Chloramphenicol

C) Tetracycline

D) Keflex

Answer 17

A) Sulfonamides

Question 18

The most common congenital cardiac anomaly in the cyanotic group is

A) tricuspid atresia

B) tetralogy of Fallot

C) patent ductus arteriosus

D) truncus arteriosus

Answer 18

B) tetralogy of Fallot

Question 19

A patient is considered a pediatric patient is they are between the ages of:

A) 10-18 years

B) birth to 12 years

C) 18 to 30 months

D) birth to 18 years

Answer 19

D) birth to 18 years

Question 20

The procedure preformed to open a stricture at the gastric outlet on an infant is

A) gastrectomy

B) pyloral myotomy

C) pyloric stenting

D) Ramstedt

Answer 20

B) pyloral myotomy

Question 21

During surgery on the pediatric patient, interventions to maintain the patients temperature are

A) the OR is prewarmed prior to the patient arriving

B) a warm air blanket is used during procedure

C) heating lamps are used preoperatively or at anytime needed

D) All of the above

Answer 21

D) All of the above

Question 22

The surgical pediactric patient with an increased metabolic rate requires all of the following EXCEPT

A) oxygen

B) caloric intake

C) blood transfusions

D) fluids

Answer 22

C) blood transfusions

Question 23

An untreated condition in infants that causes the skull to enlarge is called

A) hydrocephalus

B) cerebral defect

C) cerebral aneurysm

D) meningioma

Answer 23

A) hydrocephalus