surgical specialty quiz with answers

surgical specialty quiz with answers |\ |\ |\ |\




What major artery supplies the descending colon - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Left colic artery |\ |\ |\




Commonly implicated in SAH, the vessels of the Circle of Willis
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include - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Posterior communicating artery
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Which of the following is the treatment for a patient that has a
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postoperative empyema? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Rib resection |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Pamela Morris is a 62-year-old woman with a 4-year history of
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Graves' disease that has not responded to medical therapy. She
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is scheduled for a subtotal thyroidectomy. What condition, a
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complication of Graves' disease, is her probable indication for a|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


subtotal thyroidectomy? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Tracheal
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obstruction


During a surgical procedure to excise a malignant thyroid gland,
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the surgeon asks you why she is not removing the posterior part
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of the patient's thyroid gland. Your correct response is - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔so that the patient does not develop hypocalcemia
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Which of the following is a risk factor associated with unplanned
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hypothermia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔open cavity surgery |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\