Surgical Concepts
The two primary types of energy used for hemostatis in surgery.
What is electrosurgery and ultrasonic energy. Or monopolar and bipolar energy.
True or false: Increased end-tidal CO2 and tachycardia are early indications of an MH crisis.
What is true.
The surgical specialty with the most wrong-site surgeries.
What is orthopedic surgery.
The first hour of general anesthesia drops the body's core temp. by roughly _______ degrees C.
What is 1 to 1.6 degrees C.
The surgical union of 2 normally separate structures to form a continuous channel. May connect two blood vessels or two healthy sections of intestine.
What is an anastomosis.
There should be ______vials of dantrolene immediately accessible to deliver the initial dose.
What is 36 vials.
The best way to mark the surgical site.
What is surgeon's initials.
True or false: Pts. who are hypothermic are 3 times as likely to suffer a surgical site infection.
What is True.
This device is a safer form of delivering electrical energy in a patient that has a pacemaker.
What is bipolar or ultrasonic energy.
The fluid that Dantrolene is reconstituted with.
What is sterile water.
The time when a time-out should occur.
What is after the patient is prepped and draped and before the knife, needle or scope is handed to the surgeon.
The temperature that the blanket warmer is set at.
What is 110 degrees F.
Used to retract the spermatic cord during an inguinal hernia repair?
What is a penrose drain.
Two of the volatile gaseous inhalations anesthetics that may trigger an MH crisis.
What is sevoflurane, desflurane, isoflurane, halothane, enflurane, methoxyflurane.
Three things that must be stated during the time-out process.
What is pt. identity, name of procedure, position, site marking, allergies, antibiotics. and site marking should be visible and circulator should be visibly viewing the consent and verifying the information.
The temperature range for the operating rooms.
The heel bone of the foot.
What is the calcaneus .
The depolarizing muscle relaxant that can trigger an MH crisis
What is succinylcholine.
Wrong-site surgery is considered this type of event.
What is a sentinel event.