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100

When shipping MS tissue to a processor, how long can it stay on wet ice?

72 hours

100

10 years

How long donor retrieval, processing, storage, and distribution records shall be maintained

100

Tri-cortical wedge

Ilium or Hemi-pelvis

100

Minimum incubation time for anaerobic bacteria

7 Days

100

 Responsible for performing and documenting an annual review of the SOP’s for donor suitability and adverse outcomes.

The  Medical Director

200


What information should be included on the outside of the shipper going to CTS?


   Label with Donor Number

200

24 Hours

Tissue recovery must commence within 24 hours if the donor is cooled within 12 hours of death.

200

I'm tissue produced from one donor at one time using one set of instruments and supplies.

A Lot

200

Laboratory cultures on donor skin detect most common microorganisms, with the exception of?

  1. Anaerobic bacteria
  2. Fungi
  3. Viruses
  4. Yeast

C. Virus

Viruses are very difficult to culture.  They require living cells and are beyond the scope of common laboratory practices

200

Activities to assure and verify confidence in the quality of the process used for the finished tissue and which document that the entire operation is in conformity with the AATB standards for tissue banking is called?

  1. Quality Control
  2. Quality Assurance
  3. Processing
  4. Sterility verification

Quality Assurance

300

How much ice must be in with tissue being shipped to MTF?

30 lbs

300

Abbreviation OA

Osteoarticular Graft

300

Universal Precautions, as defined by the CDC , will be implemented and enforced to reduce the risk of exposure to infectious disease.

True or False??

TRUE…Universal Precautions were originally defined by the CDC and the guidelines have been adopted

300

Quality assurance staff is responsible for all of the following except?

  1. Approve or reject tissue
  2. Discontinue processing if deviations of SOP’s are denoted
  3. Discontinue release of tissue if deviations of SOP’s are denoted
  4. Perform testing to ensure that equipment is operating within specifications


d. Quality assurance is not required to perform testing to ensure that equipment is operating within specifications.

400

Serological testing on a potential donor reveals a reactive syphilis test.  The test is reactive on repeat testing, but the confirmatory test is negative.  Can the tissue be used?

May be used only if found to be negative using an FDA licensed Treponemal-specific confirmatory assay

400

1 - 10oC

Refrigeration storage temperature for skin

400

Insertion site for the patellar ligament.

Tibial tuberosity

400

Skin grafts are unsuitable for transplantation if the cultures grow?

  1.  Clostridium
  2.  Staph aureus
  3. Fungi
  4. All of the above

d. All of the above

400

Relevant medical records contain the following except:

  1. donor medical history interview
  2. physical assessment
  3. expiration dates of tissue
  4. laboratory test results

c. Expiration dates of tissue are not part of donor medical records.

500

Which of the following would not allow for the donation of cardiovascular tissues?

  1. Bacterial endocarditis
  2. Hypertension
  3. Irregular heart beat
  4. Hepatitis A

a. Bacterial endocarditis

Heart donors shall have no history of bacterial endocarditis, rheumatic fever, or semilunar valvular disease, or cardiomyopathy of viral of idiopathic etiology.

500

 <= 28 days old


Age of HV donor requiring the Mother to have blood drawn for infectious disease testing.

500

The Achilles tendon is attached to this bone.

Calcaneus

500

Which is not a sterilizing agent/process?

  1. Irradiation
  2. Autoclave
  3. Ethylene oxide
  4. Glutaraldehyde

d. Glutaraldehyde

500

A departure from AATB standards pre-approved by the AATB Board of Governors is:

  1. an error
  2. a variance
  3. a resolution
  4. a waiver

b. A variance.  

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