Surgical Nursing Test 1

Front 1

Scalpel handle

Back 1

Designed to hold the blades firmly during the surgical procedure. Most common is #3, will hold blades 10-19. Blade #10 is most common for spays and neuters.

Front 2

Backhaus towel clamp

Back 2

Used to to secure sterile drapes to the patient. Available in 5.5" & 3.5"

Front 3

Scissors - Mayo Dissecting

Back 3

Heavy scissors used to cut dense tissue

Front 4

Scissors-metzenbaum dissecting

Back 4

Used for cutting delicate tissue such as fat

Front 5

Iris scissors

Back 5

Small and delicate, specifically for eye surgery

Front 6

Scissors - bandage

Back 6

Have a blunt point on one blade that aids in slipping under the bandage and cutting it without cutting the patient. (Lister bandage scissors)

Front 7

Scissors-Littauer suture removal

Back 7

Used to cut all types of skin sutures except wire

Front 8

Kelly and crile hemostatic forceps

Back 8

For controlling bleeding (hemostasis) in the surgical field.

Front 9

What is the difference between Kelly and crile hemostatic forceps?

Back 9

Kelly's serrations don't go all the way

Front 10

Mosquito hemostats

Back 10

Have small jaws with fine horizontal serrations that extend the entire length of the tip, generally used to clamp small vessels to stop bleeding.

Front 11

Rochester-Carmalt hemostatic forceps

Back 11

Has horizontal serrations and vertical serrations on the tip of the jaw, giving a checkerboard appearance. *used to clamp large vessels or large tissue masses

Front 12

Allis tissue forceps

Back 12

Fairly traumatic, used for grasping skin such ad the Linea alba or tissue being removed from a patient.

Front 13

Mayo-Hegar Needle driver

Back 13

Commonly called needle holder

Front 14

Olsen-Hegar needle driver

Back 14

Needle holders with a built in jaw for cutting suture. *2 functions

Front 15

Adson Thumb Forceps

Back 15

For grasping tissue (Brown Adson has more teeth)

Front 16

Rat Tooth Thumb Forceps

Back 16

Larger than Adson, for grasping tissue

Front 17

Dressing Forceps

Back 17

For grasping without breaking sterility, NOT for stopping bleeding like hemostatic forceps

Front 18

Snook's spay hook

Back 18

To exteriorize the uterus

Front 19

Covault spay hook

Back 19

To exteriorize the uterus, has a small "button" on the tip of the hook

Front 20

Machine that sterilizers surgical instruments

Back 20

Autoclave

Front 21

What part of the scrubbed in personnel's gown are part of the sterile field?

Back 21

In front from the chest to the level of the sterile field

Front 22

What direction do you pull the first corner when opening a surgical pack?

Back 22

Away from you

Front 23

Sterile

Back 23

Absence of and continued protection against all microorganisms

Front 24

Sterile field

Back 24

Any area with a sterile barrier

Front 25

Asepsis

Back 25

Absence of pathogenic microorganisms

Front 26

What is strike - through contamination?

Back 26

(When a piece of the sterile field becomes wet) when liquids soak through from a sterile area to a non-sterile area or liquids soak through from a non-sterile area to a sterile area

Front 27

Chlorhexidine

Back 27

Disinfectant and antiseptic used for disinfecting the skin before a surgery, and to clean surgical instruments. (The stuff we scrub in with)

Front 28

What is residual effect of chlorhexidine

Back 28

6 days

Front 29

Why should scrub suits not be worn from home to the hospital?

Back 29

Could bring microorganisms to hospital

Front 30

Why should scrub suits not be worn home from the hospital?

Back 30

Could infect our pets with something

Front 31

What should the surgical nurse wear when leaving the surgery suite?

Back 31

Lab coat

Front 32

What does endogenous mean?

Back 32

From the patient

Front 33

What does exogenous mean?

Back 33

From the surgical team and/or surgical environment

Front 34

What should a technician do before surgery?

Back 34

Eat a meal of substance, visit restroom, groom fingernails, avoid cologne and perfume, consume fluids

Front 35

What are the types of surgical scrub?

Back 35

Chlorhexidine, Iodophor, alcohol, brushless rub

Front 36

How do you determine where the animals umbilicus is?

Back 36

Take leg and drop it, will land on the umbilicus

Front 37

When prepping a patient, what should you do if the gauze touches fur?

Back 37

Rotate and keep that part of the gauze on the outside