Surgical Imaging #3

Question 1

Name the sterile team members in surgery?

Answer 1

Surgeon, Surgical Assistant, Physician Assistant, Scrub Nurse, and Certified Surgical Technologist (CST)

Question 2

A CST is responsible for what in surgery?

Answer 2

Maintaining integrity, safety, efficiency, and a sterile field. Prepares and arranges instruments and supplies

Question 3

Name the non-sterile team members in surgery?

Answer 3

Anesthesia Provider, Circulating Nurse, Radiographer, and others

Question 4

What is the dress code for non-restricted areas in surgery?

Answer 4

May enter in their street clothes; Entrance to surgery department

Question 5

You should always remove shoe covers before leaving the surgical area, True or False?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

How many microbial particles can be shed from the skin per minute?

Answer 6

Up to 10,000

Question 7

Sterile IR cover is held open by whom?

Answer 7

CST

Question 8

The radiographer should open the protective IR cover away from themselves and others so as not to spread any fluids, True or False?

Answer 8

True

Question 9

When are gowns considered sterile?

Answer 9

In front from shoulders to the level of the sterile field and at the sleeves from the elbow to the cuff

Question 10

Cine loop does what?

Answer 10

Records images in a rapid sequence and then displayed as a moving image

Question 11

Road-mapping does what?

Answer 11

Creates live subtracted images with contrast studies

Question 12

The general rule in surgery is to stand at a right angle (90 degrees) from the primary beam, True or False?

Answer 12

True

Question 13

The greatest amount of scatter radiation occurs on what side of the fluoro machine?

Answer 13

The tube side

Question 14

When tilting the c-arm the exposure increases to what body region?

Answer 14

The upper body and facial region

Question 15

A tilt of 30 degrees increases the dose by what?

Answer 15

By a factor of 4

Question 16

A method of immobilizing bones to allow fracture to heal, where pins are secured together outside the skin with clamps and rods is what?

Answer 16

External Fixation

Question 17

Operative Cholangiography is performed to do what?

* 6-8 mL of Contrast*

Answer 17

To check for patency of bile ducts and functional status of the sphincter of hepatopancreatic ampulla (Stones, neoplasms, strictures, and dilation of ducts)

Question 18

What procedure treats nerve roots or spinal cord compression by decompressing and stabilizating the corresponding vertebrae by removing the complete disc and adding bone graft to stabilize?

Answer 18

Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion (ACDF)

Question 19

What should the angle of the c-arm be for an Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion (ACDF)?

Answer 19

15 degrees cephalad

Question 20

Hip fractures require what type of surgery?

Answer 20

Open Reduction of Internal Fixation (ORIF)

Question 21

A total hip replacement is called what?

Answer 21

Arthroplasty, which can result from degenerative disease or chronic trauma to the femoral head and/or aceutabulum

Question 22

A nail or rod that is inserted into the intramedullary canal of the femur and done retrograde, means what?

Answer 22

The nail or rod was inserted through the popliteal notch or distal end of the long bone

Question 23

When inserting pins and screws, the holes should appear round, what should you do if the holes appear oblong?

Answer 23

Tilt or rotate c-arm to obtain perfect circles

Question 24

Who manipulates the patients leg to obtain round holes?

Answer 24

The surgeon

Question 25

What position is a patient in for a humerus during surgery?

Answer 25

Supine or Reclining beach chair

• Assistant will rotate arm medially with elbow at 90 degrees and hand pointed upward
• C-arm enters parallel or at 45 degree angle to the patient

Question 26

Strike-through refers to?

Answer 26

Moisture from a nonsterile surface soaking through to a sterile surface, causing bacteria to reach a sterile area

Question 27

Closed reduction is considered?

Answer 27

A Nonsurgical procedure

Question 28

A radiographic exam of the pelvicaliceal system only during surgery is term?

Answer 28

Retrograde pyelogram

Question 29

In what position is the patient placed during retrograde urography?

Answer 29

Modified lithotomy position