IAHCSMM CIS INSTRUMENT SPECIALIST EXAM TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔PSI - ✔✔Powered Surgical Instruments. PSIs are generally powered by electricity,
battery, or compressed air.
✔✔Ratchet - ✔✔The part of an instrument that "locks" the handles in place.
✔✔Reamer - ✔✔An instrument used in orthopedic surgery to create a hollow area in the
bone.
✔✔Reduce - ✔✔To bring two bone fragments back into alignment following a fracture.
✔✔Scalpel - ✔✔A surgical instrument used to cut and separate tissue.
✔✔Self-Retaining - ✔✔A surgical instrument that cal be placed in a fixed position.
✔✔Self-Tapping - ✔✔A screw that creates its own hole in bone as it is being inserted.
✔✔Serrations - ✔✔Parallel grooves in the jaws of surgical instruments.
, ✔✔Sharps - ✔✔Instruments designed to cut or incise. This may also refer to
instruments which pose a safety hazard to instrument handlers.
✔✔Sizer - ✔✔A model of prosthesis (implant) that is used to determine the correct size
of the implant needed.
✔✔Speculum - ✔✔A surgical instrument used to spread apart walls of a cavity.
✔✔STAT - ✔✔From the Latin term, "statim", meaning immediately.
✔✔Sterilant - ✔✔Any agent used to sterilize instruments. For example, steam, ethylene
oxide, etc.
✔✔Surgical Grade - ✔✔High quality instruments, usually more resistant to corrosion,
these instruments are manufactured with high quality, controlled materials, and detailed
precision.
✔✔Surgery - ✔✔The branch of medicine dealing with operative procedures to correct
deformities and defects, repair injuries, and diagnose and cure diseases.
✔✔Suture - ✔✔Material Product used to close a wound or incision. Examples are
catgut, silk thread, or staples. They may or may not be removed when the wound heals,
depending on the type of material that is used.
✔✔Tenaculum - ✔✔A long handled clamp surgical instrument with hook-like ends used
to grasp and hold tissue.
✔✔Trephine - ✔✔A surgical saw used to remove a disc-shaped piece of tissue.
✔✔Trocar - ✔✔A spear shaped instrument or needle used to create an opening or a
drainage outlet.
✔✔Ultrasonic - ✔✔A mechanical cleaning device which uses sound waves to produce a
cleaning process called cavitation.
✔✔ AAMI - ✔✔Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
✔✔Adaptor - ✔✔A device used to connect two parts together.
✔✔Aerosol - ✔✔A suspension of fine particles in air. In the decontamination area,
aerosols created from an uncontrolled cleaning process, may produce aerosols
containing blood borne pathogens.
✔✔AORN - ✔✔Association of Operating Room Nurses
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔PSI - ✔✔Powered Surgical Instruments. PSIs are generally powered by electricity,
battery, or compressed air.
✔✔Ratchet - ✔✔The part of an instrument that "locks" the handles in place.
✔✔Reamer - ✔✔An instrument used in orthopedic surgery to create a hollow area in the
bone.
✔✔Reduce - ✔✔To bring two bone fragments back into alignment following a fracture.
✔✔Scalpel - ✔✔A surgical instrument used to cut and separate tissue.
✔✔Self-Retaining - ✔✔A surgical instrument that cal be placed in a fixed position.
✔✔Self-Tapping - ✔✔A screw that creates its own hole in bone as it is being inserted.
✔✔Serrations - ✔✔Parallel grooves in the jaws of surgical instruments.
, ✔✔Sharps - ✔✔Instruments designed to cut or incise. This may also refer to
instruments which pose a safety hazard to instrument handlers.
✔✔Sizer - ✔✔A model of prosthesis (implant) that is used to determine the correct size
of the implant needed.
✔✔Speculum - ✔✔A surgical instrument used to spread apart walls of a cavity.
✔✔STAT - ✔✔From the Latin term, "statim", meaning immediately.
✔✔Sterilant - ✔✔Any agent used to sterilize instruments. For example, steam, ethylene
oxide, etc.
✔✔Surgical Grade - ✔✔High quality instruments, usually more resistant to corrosion,
these instruments are manufactured with high quality, controlled materials, and detailed
precision.
✔✔Surgery - ✔✔The branch of medicine dealing with operative procedures to correct
deformities and defects, repair injuries, and diagnose and cure diseases.
✔✔Suture - ✔✔Material Product used to close a wound or incision. Examples are
catgut, silk thread, or staples. They may or may not be removed when the wound heals,
depending on the type of material that is used.
✔✔Tenaculum - ✔✔A long handled clamp surgical instrument with hook-like ends used
to grasp and hold tissue.
✔✔Trephine - ✔✔A surgical saw used to remove a disc-shaped piece of tissue.
✔✔Trocar - ✔✔A spear shaped instrument or needle used to create an opening or a
drainage outlet.
✔✔Ultrasonic - ✔✔A mechanical cleaning device which uses sound waves to produce a
cleaning process called cavitation.
✔✔ AAMI - ✔✔Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
✔✔Adaptor - ✔✔A device used to connect two parts together.
✔✔Aerosol - ✔✔A suspension of fine particles in air. In the decontamination area,
aerosols created from an uncontrolled cleaning process, may produce aerosols
containing blood borne pathogens.
✔✔AORN - ✔✔Association of Operating Room Nurses
