Blog

The purpose of an NPO status for 8-12 hours prior to surgery in adults is ordered to ____.

+1 bonus point could be added (manually by faculty)  for the correct answer.  (spelling needs to be correct enough to identify the dyes) A. There are three dyes we use intraop for sterile surgical site marking. Name the ONE dye used in marking pens.     

When moving a patient from the operating room table to stretcher, ___ is responsible for remaining at the patient’s head and protecting the airway and the cervical alignment.

During surgical positioning, commonly injured nerves include the ____ (28%), _____ (20%). Injuries occur less commonly with the sciatic, median, and femoral nerves.

____ is also known as the dorsal recumbent position. 

You are expected to re-visit the discussion board regularly while a module is open to ask questions and to respond to questions posted to your thread.

Sterilely attired surgical team members should pass one another in any of the following ways EXCEPT:      

The Bowie-Dick test is performed for which sterilization method?            

What is the blue paper called? 

A nonsterile person should approach a sterile area face forward while maintaining a distance of: