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American Board of Surgical Assistants TEST REVIEW - Sutures and Wound Repair/ General Surgery

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American Board of Surgical Assistants TEST REVIEW - Sutures and Wound Repair/ General Surgery Who discovered that the body absorbs sutures made from animal tissues? - ✔✔Philip Syng Physick Wh... ich suture material is NOT absorbed but remains as a living tissue in the body? - ✔✔Fascia lata Space caused by separation of wound edges which have not been closely approximated by sutures is called - ✔✔Dead Space An interrupted suture, which is placed through tissue from one side of the wound to the other and then back through tissue again is called - ✔✔Matress Suture material which, during healing process, becomes encapsulated by fibrous tissue is called - ✔✔Non absorbable suture In the presence of infection, the absorption rate of surgical gut is: - ✔✔Increased Which suture can be used in presence of infection? - ✔✔Polypropylene Suture in which short lateral stitches are taken beneath - ✔✔Subcuticular Healing process in which a wound is purposely left open and allowed to heal from bottom upward is called - ✔✔Secondary intention Surgical gut is made from the - ✔✔Submucosa layer of sheep's intestines Which is most inert in tissue - ✔✔Wire Stay suture does not pass through -Subq -Rectus muscle -Mesentery -Fascia - ✔✔Mesentery Spitting open or gaping of wound is called - ✔✔Dehiscence Which of the following is used to stop bleeding and oozing on surfaced of severed BONES - ✔✔Mixture of waxes (chiefly beeswax) Protrusion of bowel through separated edges of abdominal wound closure is - ✔✔Evisceration Silk is not recommended for use in gallbladder kidney or bladder because - ✔✔It may become nucleus for stone formation Most braided or twisted non absorbable sutures should not be used in presence of active infection because - ✔✔The sutures become breeding place for infection Halsted Technique consists mainly of - ✔✔Interrupted silk sutures Another name for a stick tie or transfixation suture is - ✔✔Suture ligature Bumpers or guards are used on tension sutures to - ✔✔Prevent heavy suture from cutting into skin Tissue trauma will be kept to minimum by using - ✔✔Sutured swaged to a needle Amount of weight or pull necessary to break suture or ligature material is called - ✔✔Tensile strength Which would have ea weakening effect on suture? Soaking in saline Testing tensile strength Straightening it - ✔✔ALL OF THE ABOVE Which of following synthetic non absorb suture material is least reactive in tissue? Polypropylene Polyester fiber Nylon teflon impregnanted polyester - ✔✔Polypropylene What type of suture would be used when closing the anus for perineal stage of an and perineal resection - ✔✔Purse string suture Ampulla of water is dilated for - ✔✔Common duct stones Select procedure that require isolation of instruments from rest of operative field: 1. Open intest anastomosis 2. Common duct exploration [Show More]

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