II Lecture Chapter 21 Certification Style Exam

The patient who was brought into the ER has a fracture of the distal radius. The orthopedic surgeon informs the OR to prepare for an application of an external fixation device. The CST knows this fracture is called?

Colles'

A bucket handle tear is the pathology associated with the following orthopedic surgical intervention.

knee arthroscopy

For an ORIF of a hip fracture C-arm would be needed and the patient position would be?

supine with fracture table

The fixation used by the surgical team for an ORIF of a hip fracture would be?

AO dynamic hip screw

For a total joint arthroplasty procedure, the surgeon might use PMMA as means of implant fixation . When mixing PMMA the CST needs to use ___ to prevent exposure to the vapors?

closed mixing system

The following surgical intervention would be performed for chronic shoulder dislocation. Suture anchors would be used to reattach the glenoid ligament.

Bankart procedure

When the surgeon is using a power drill on bone and the bone begins to smoke, the CST in the scrub role should?

drip irrigation fluid onto drill bit

The patient position for an Achilles tendon repair would be ________. The surgeon might employ a ________ suturing technique might be used to repair the tendon.

prone, krakow

For the surgical intervention of a triple arthrodesis procedure the patient position would be supine and the three joints fused would be?

calcaneocuboid, talonavicular, & subtalar

An abnormal softening of the patient's bone caused by loss of calcification would be?

osteomalacia