SCRIBEAMERICA OUTPATIENT UPDATED
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Stomach stapled - ✔✔Bariatric Surgery (Note: Patient may have had gastric banding
or Sleeve gastrectomy)
✔✔Exploratory - ✔✔Exploratory Laparoscopy
✔✔Kidney removed - ✔✔Nephrectomy
✔✔Uterus removed - ✔✔Hysterectomy (partial vs. total)
✔✔Ovary removed - ✔✔Oophorectomy
✔✔Ovary and fallopian tubes removed - ✔✔Salpingo-oophorectomy (SO)
✔✔Tubes tied - ✔✔Tubal ligation (female) or vasectomy (male)
✔✔C-Section - ✔✔Cesarean Section
✔✔Prostate removed - ✔✔Prostatectomy (most often Trans-Urethral Resection of the
Prostate, or TURP)
✔✔Kidney removed - ✔✔nephrectomy
✔✔Uterine Product Removed - ✔✔Dilation and Curettage (D&C)
✔✔Neck artery cleaned - ✔✔Carotid Endarterectomy
✔✔Brain surgery - ✔✔Craniotomy (brain bleed vs. brain CA)
✔✔Shunt - ✔✔Cerebral Shunt
✔✔Dialysis fistula - ✔✔AV (arteriovenous) Fistula
✔✔Dialysis graft - ✔✔AV Graft
✔✔PICC Line - ✔✔Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC)
✔✔Port - ✔✔Port-a-cath or Medi-Port
✔✔Clot filter (lower abdomen or leg) - ✔✔IVC (inferior vena cava) filter
, ✔✔Leg amputated - ✔✔-Above Knee Amputation (AKA)
-Below Knee Amputation (BKA)
✔✔Joint repair - ✔✔Arthroplasty
✔✔Metal plates/pins - ✔✔Hardware
✔✔Neck fused - ✔✔Cervical spinal fusion
✔✔Back fused - ✔✔Lumbar spinal fusion
✔✔New Hip - ✔✔Total hip replacement
✔✔FAMILY HISTORY (FHx) - ✔✔-A younger age of onset means higher genetic risk.
-Older age of onset (50 y/o +) is likely more due to environment than genetics.
Additionally, the genetic risk for the disease is higher if multiple blood-family members
suffer from the same disease.
✔✔General FHx - ✔✔HTN, DM, CA
✔✔Cardiac FHx - ✔✔MI, CAD, less than 55 y/o
✔✔Pulmonary FHx - ✔✔PE, Asthma
✔✔GI FHx - ✔✔Crohn's, IBS
✔✔Neurological FHx - ✔✔CVA, Aneurysm, Seizures
✔✔Misc FHx - ✔✔Sickle Cell, Anemia, DVT
✔✔Social History - ✔✔-Tobacco Use
-Alcohol Use (ETOH)
-Illicit Drug Use
-Occupation
-Living Circumstances
✔✔SHx Tobacco Use - ✔✔Smoking Status
-Current (#ppd, #yrs)
-Former (year quit)
-Never
-Second Hand Expore (peds)
Chewing Tobacco
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Stomach stapled - ✔✔Bariatric Surgery (Note: Patient may have had gastric banding
or Sleeve gastrectomy)
✔✔Exploratory - ✔✔Exploratory Laparoscopy
✔✔Kidney removed - ✔✔Nephrectomy
✔✔Uterus removed - ✔✔Hysterectomy (partial vs. total)
✔✔Ovary removed - ✔✔Oophorectomy
✔✔Ovary and fallopian tubes removed - ✔✔Salpingo-oophorectomy (SO)
✔✔Tubes tied - ✔✔Tubal ligation (female) or vasectomy (male)
✔✔C-Section - ✔✔Cesarean Section
✔✔Prostate removed - ✔✔Prostatectomy (most often Trans-Urethral Resection of the
Prostate, or TURP)
✔✔Kidney removed - ✔✔nephrectomy
✔✔Uterine Product Removed - ✔✔Dilation and Curettage (D&C)
✔✔Neck artery cleaned - ✔✔Carotid Endarterectomy
✔✔Brain surgery - ✔✔Craniotomy (brain bleed vs. brain CA)
✔✔Shunt - ✔✔Cerebral Shunt
✔✔Dialysis fistula - ✔✔AV (arteriovenous) Fistula
✔✔Dialysis graft - ✔✔AV Graft
✔✔PICC Line - ✔✔Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC)
✔✔Port - ✔✔Port-a-cath or Medi-Port
✔✔Clot filter (lower abdomen or leg) - ✔✔IVC (inferior vena cava) filter
, ✔✔Leg amputated - ✔✔-Above Knee Amputation (AKA)
-Below Knee Amputation (BKA)
✔✔Joint repair - ✔✔Arthroplasty
✔✔Metal plates/pins - ✔✔Hardware
✔✔Neck fused - ✔✔Cervical spinal fusion
✔✔Back fused - ✔✔Lumbar spinal fusion
✔✔New Hip - ✔✔Total hip replacement
✔✔FAMILY HISTORY (FHx) - ✔✔-A younger age of onset means higher genetic risk.
-Older age of onset (50 y/o +) is likely more due to environment than genetics.
Additionally, the genetic risk for the disease is higher if multiple blood-family members
suffer from the same disease.
✔✔General FHx - ✔✔HTN, DM, CA
✔✔Cardiac FHx - ✔✔MI, CAD, less than 55 y/o
✔✔Pulmonary FHx - ✔✔PE, Asthma
✔✔GI FHx - ✔✔Crohn's, IBS
✔✔Neurological FHx - ✔✔CVA, Aneurysm, Seizures
✔✔Misc FHx - ✔✔Sickle Cell, Anemia, DVT
✔✔Social History - ✔✔-Tobacco Use
-Alcohol Use (ETOH)
-Illicit Drug Use
-Occupation
-Living Circumstances
✔✔SHx Tobacco Use - ✔✔Smoking Status
-Current (#ppd, #yrs)
-Former (year quit)
-Never
-Second Hand Expore (peds)
Chewing Tobacco
