Surgical Imaging #3 Flashcards
Name the sterile team members in surgery?
Surgeon, Surgical Assistant, Physician Assistant, Scrub Nurse, and Certified Surgical Technologist (CST)
A CST is responsible for what in surgery?
Maintaining integrity, safety, efficiency, and a sterile field. Prepares and arranges instruments and supplies
Name the non-sterile team members in surgery?
Anesthesia Provider, Circulating Nurse, Radiographer, and others
What is the dress code for non-restricted areas in surgery?
May enter in their street clothes; Entrance to surgery department
You should always remove shoe covers before leaving the surgical area, True or False?
True
How many microbial particles can be shed from the skin per minute?
Up to 10,000
Sterile IR cover is held open by whom?
CST
The radiographer should open the protective IR cover away from themselves and others so as not to spread any fluids, True or False?
True
When are gowns considered sterile?
In front from shoulders to the level of the sterile field and at the sleeves from the elbow to the cuff
Cine loop does what?
Records images in a rapid sequence and then displayed as a moving image
Road-mapping does what?
Creates live subtracted images with contrast studies
The general rule in surgery is to stand at a right angle (90 degrees) from the primary beam, True or False?
True
The greatest amount of scatter radiation occurs on what side of the fluoro machine?
The tube side
When tilting the c-arm the exposure increases to what body region?
The upper body and facial region
A tilt of 30 degrees increases the dose by what?
By a factor of 4
A method of immobilizing bones to allow fracture to heal, where pins are secured together outside the skin with clamps and rods is what?
External Fixation
Operative Cholangiography is performed to do what?
* 6-8 mL of Contrast*
To check for patency of bile ducts and functional status of the sphincter of hepatopancreatic ampulla (Stones, neoplasms, strictures, and dilation of ducts)
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?
Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion (ACDF)
What should the angle of the c-arm be for an Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion (ACDF)?
15 degrees cephalad
Hip fractures require what type of surgery?
Open Reduction of Internal Fixation (ORIF)
A total hip replacement is called what?
Arthroplasty, which can result from degenerative disease or chronic trauma to the femoral head and/or aceutabulum
A nail or rod that is inserted into the intramedullary canal of the femur and done retrograde, means what?
The nail or rod was inserted through the popliteal notch or distal end of the long bone
When inserting pins and screws, the holes should appear round, what should you do if the holes appear oblong?
Tilt or rotate c-arm to obtain perfect circles
Who manipulates the patients leg to obtain round holes?
The surgeon
