History of Surgery
Surgery was first invented during which part of history-evidenced by the skulls of individuals with holes drilled in their heads?
Stone Age
The military utilized non-physician and non-nursing assistants in surgery partly because who was excluded from the battlefield during WWI and WWII?
Women
Identify a non-sterile member of the Surgical Team.
Circulator, Anesthesia Provider, Technical Support (Biomedical Engineer) – Sales rep, Radiology Tech, Perfusionist, Anesthesia Tech
Which type of hospital is investor owned by individual/corporation? This hospitals focus on providing quality patient care while also creating a profit to be returned to the investors.
Proprietary
What type of insurance agency covers care only if it is provided by a provider that is within the insurance company's network?
HMO-Health Maintenance Organization
Who was the author of De Humani Corporis Fabrica –Latin for The Fabric of the Human Body-the book that significantly advanced the understanding of human anatomy?
Andreas Vesalius
What was the name the military gave to the role we currently know as the surgical technologist when it was first created?
ORT-Operating Room Technician
Identify a sterile member of the surgical team.
Surgeon, Surgical Technologist, Surgical First Assistant
Which group is generally at the top of the hospital organizations structure that is either elected or appointed that typically establish the hospital philosophy & policies?
Board of Directors/Trustees
What is the name of the federal government insurance plan for 65 or older or disabled?
Medicare
What was the name of the Hungarian physician who discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as "childbed fever") could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics?
Ignaz Semmelweis
Following which war was there a shortage of OR nurses in the US which prompted many civilian OR supervisors to hire/recruit ex-medics/corpsmen to work in surgery as an ORT?
Korean War
Identify 3 hospital departments that have direct patient care.
Radiology Nursing ICU ER Physical Therapy OR Anesthesia Cardiology Pharmacy Dietary/Nutrition GI Lab Pathology Laboratory Blood Bank
Education Home Health Pt/Community
OT Hospice Chaplin Pain Centers Wound Clinic
If a surgical technologist has a concern who should they go to with their concern to follow the appropriate chain of command? If their concern is not resolved who would be the next person in the OR chain of command?
“Board” Nurse (Charge Nurse), Education Coordinator, Various Managers specific to specialty the CST is employed in
If not resolved then report to OR Director/Manager
What is the name of the government assistance insurance program funded by state and federal for low income persons of all ages?
Medicaid
What was the name of the British surgeon who is known as the pioneer of antiseptic surgery who successfully introduced carbolic acid (now known as phenol) to sterilize surgical instruments and to clean wounds?
Joseph Lister
AORT (Association of Operating Room Technicians) was originally under what organization before it split off to become AST (Association of Surgical Technologists)?
AORN-Association of Operating Room Nurses
Identify 3 hospital departments that provide indirect patient care.
Infection Control Housekeeping Maintenance Grounds Bio-engineering
Buyers Sterile Processing Distribution
Human Resources Employee Education Employee Health Payroll Patient Accounts Security Medical Records
Who is hired by the Board of Directors and given the responsibility to enact the hospital philosophy and policies?
CEO
What is the name for the predetermined average charges for services that insurance providers will base their payments on?
Diagnosis Related Groups
What is the name of the individual who lead the understanding of human anatomy prior to Andreas Vesalius? (Andreas Vesalius challenged many of this individual's beliefs)
Galen
Describe the importance related to referring to members of the profession as surgical technologists not surgical technicians.
Technician implies that the individual is not educated and needs direct supervision to complete simple tasks-1978 ORT name changed to Surgical Technologist
Identify 5 hospital departments that have direct contact with Surgery/Perioperative Services.
Sterile processing, Materials management, Pathology, Blood Bank, Pharmacy, Anesthesia, Radiology, Housekeeping, Infection Control
Surgical technologists are usually classified under __________ in the hospital organizational chart which is typically divided into sub-units with surgical/perioperative services one of these units.
Nursing or staffing services
PPO-Preferred Provider Organizations