Chapter 15
If a guidewire is highly responsive when inserted through a vessel, it is said to have the characteristic of:
Steerability
The procedure that delivers a clotting agent to a specific area in the body using interventional radiology is called:
Which of the following choices is a small object placed on or in the body to indicate a specific area for treatment?
Fiducial Marker
A patient who is in the process of obtaining pre-operative positional data is undergoing:
Registration
The size of a hybrid OR suite should be:
at least 1000 square feet
The purpose of the patient-side cart during a robotic-assisted procedure is to:
Which of the following coordinates is used for graphing mathematical functions in which the axes are always perpendicular to each other?
Robotic manipulators are not sterilized but are covered with disposable drapes for surgical procedures. (T/F)
True
Which of the following terms is used for the technology of performing a surgical procedure in real time but from a distant location?
Telesurgery
The name of the complex robotic operating system created and marketed by Intuitive Surgical is:
da vinci
Which of the following terms describes the right and left (side-to-side) movements of a robotic manipulator that has 3D capability?
Yaw
During routine robotic surgery procedures, the surgeon is located:
Sitting at the robotic console, separate from the OR table.
Which of the following terms is defined as the extent to which a machine, microscope, human, or robot can differentiate between two objects?
Resolution
Which of the following generations of robots requires consistent oversight and does not have any degree of artificial intelligence (AI)?
First
Which of the following types of endoscope would be appropriate for examination of the renal pelvis via a natural body orifice?
Flexible Ureteroscope
Which of the following terms is defined as the number of ways that a robotic manipulator can move?
Degrees of Freedom
The correct order for the surgical approach to an abdominal laparoscopic procedure is:
Incision into skin, Veress needle placed, insufflation, trocar insertion.
Typical rates of gas flow for insufflation are:
3 to 4 liters per minute
The acronym HALS stands for:
hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery
After the Veress needle is inserted and the plunger is pulled back, which of the following fluids should the surgical technologist observe in the barrel of the syringe?
Nothing
The acronym FRED stands for:
To white balance a camera, the surgical technologist should:
Aim the endoscope at a 4X4 Ray-tec a few inches away, and engage the white balance button.
Which of the following components of endoscopy is considered unsterile?
TV Monitor
What statement describes a rigid endoscope?
It is a metal tube with an eyepiece
Diagnostic