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A women who is 28 years old and weighs 55kg has a serum creatinine concentration of 0.9 mg/dL. She takes a drug that is 75% bound to plasma proteins and undergoes renal clearance only. The drug has a half-life of 60 minutes and a volume of distribution of 865 mL. Given the provided information, answer the following questions/prompts using numbers rounded to two decimal places and units when applicable. Please clearly label each answer.   [A] – Calculate the patients GFR. [1 point answer/ 0.25 points units] [B] – Calculate the patients renal clearance (CLR) [1 point answer/ 0.25 points units] [C] – Is active secretion or tubular reabsorption predominant in renal clearance? Explain how you know this. [1 point answer/ 0.5 points explanation]

Which prostatectomy procedure approach involves would an incision into the bladder to remove the prostate en bloc?

You are the “floating” CST helping other peers turn over rooms this afternoon. The circulating RN and anesthesia provider went to the outpatient to pick up the patient because the surgeon seemed frustrated and eager to finish this last case and make his floor rounds to discharge of his post-op patients. This tension and rushed behavior indicate you and the CST first scrub need to work hard to have the case ready and anticipate the surgeon’s needs so they do not need to wait and get more annoyed and angry.  All of the following answers are actions/delegated tasks you are asked to perform to help in this situation and would be considered appropriate because they fall within the legal boundaries of the ST’s professional scope of practice in Louisiana  EXCEPT ___.

Name the cystoscopy procedure supply used first to located stone or bypass strictures.  

Which type of food packaging generally gives the highest level of protection from contamination?

Torsion of the testicle is best described as  ____.

During the fourth generation, 200 dark moths were captured from clean forest B. About how many total moths were recaptured from polluted forest A during the fourth generation?

Chloramine levels can be found by first testing for free chlorine, then, total chlorine in the same water sample and then,

Name the instrument and the lubricant jelly utilized to insert it onto the end of the cysto “Y” tubing to control the flow of irrigation. (the answer is not KY- the actual surgical name  

Which of the following is NOT considered a surgical approach typically utilized to access the anatomy of the genitourinary anatomy for surgery?