CPTC EXAMINATION TEST 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT
◉What is the non-profit national representative of OPOs? . Answer:
AOPO
◉What association provides technical assistance, research, and
education? . Answer: AOPO
◉CMS . Answer: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of
DHHS and offers financial coverage for ESRD patients, funds kidney
and organ transplants, holds hospitals accountable for timely referrals
◉Who holds hospitals accountable for timely referrals? . Answer: CMS
◉Who funds kidneys, and essentially, all organ transplants? . Answer:
CMS
◉DHHS . Answer: Department of Health and Human Services
,◉HRSA . Answer: Health Resources and Services Administration,
primary federal healthcare agency for handling healthcare access issues,
division of DHHS, provides funding for OPTN contracts
◉Who provides funding for OPTN contracts? . Answer: HRSA
◉Who is responsible for handling healthcare access issues? . Answer:
HRSA
◉DoT . Answer: Department of Transplantation, component of HRSA's
Healthcare systems Bureau
◉NATCO . Answer: North America Transplant Coordinator
Organization, non-profit organization for transplant and procurement
clinicians, an OPTN member
◉What is the non-profit organization for transplant and procurement
clinicians? . Answer: NATCO
◉OPTN . Answer: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network,
public-private partnership linking all professionals in US donation and
transplantation, goals are to increase number of organs available for
transplant, improve survival rates, promote patient safety and efficient
management
,◉UAGA . Answer: Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, passed in 1968 to
increased number of organs available for transplant, supports first person
authorization
◉What organization is meant to improve survival rates and the number
of organs available for transplant? . Answer: OPTN
◉What act supports first person authorization? . Answer: UAGA
◉UDDA . Answer: Uniform Determination of Death Act, Revised in
1985 to define death as 1. irreversible cessation of respiratory and
circulatory function or 2. irreversible cessation of all brain function
◉UNOS . Answer: United Network for Organ Sharing, private-non-
profit organization that manages organ transplantation system and works
under federal government to bring transplant and procurement
organizations together.
◉Who manages the organ transplantation system? . Answer: UNOS
◉How to OPOs classify death? . Answer: Imminent, Eligible, and
neither
◉What are the two criteria that must be met to consider "imminent
death"? . Answer: Meets eligible death definition but not legally
, declared AND has severe neuro injury requiring vent support without
OBV and lacking 2 BSRs
◉What is the 80/20 rule? . Answer: 80% of donors comes from 20% of
hospitals
◉What is an imminent death? . Answer: A patient that meets death
criteria with a neuro injury but has not been declared
◉What is eligible death? . Answer: A patient who has been declared
BD, under 75, weighs >5kg, BMI<50 with one transplantable organ
◉Age must be under what to be considered eligible death? . Answer: 75
◉To be considered an eligible death the patient must weight how much?
. Answer: 5kg
◉To be considered an eligible death the patient's BMI must be less
than... . Answer: 50
◉How is conversion rate calculated? . Answer: The number of donors
who survived to OR divided by the number of donors who were eligible
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT
◉What is the non-profit national representative of OPOs? . Answer:
AOPO
◉What association provides technical assistance, research, and
education? . Answer: AOPO
◉CMS . Answer: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of
DHHS and offers financial coverage for ESRD patients, funds kidney
and organ transplants, holds hospitals accountable for timely referrals
◉Who holds hospitals accountable for timely referrals? . Answer: CMS
◉Who funds kidneys, and essentially, all organ transplants? . Answer:
CMS
◉DHHS . Answer: Department of Health and Human Services
,◉HRSA . Answer: Health Resources and Services Administration,
primary federal healthcare agency for handling healthcare access issues,
division of DHHS, provides funding for OPTN contracts
◉Who provides funding for OPTN contracts? . Answer: HRSA
◉Who is responsible for handling healthcare access issues? . Answer:
HRSA
◉DoT . Answer: Department of Transplantation, component of HRSA's
Healthcare systems Bureau
◉NATCO . Answer: North America Transplant Coordinator
Organization, non-profit organization for transplant and procurement
clinicians, an OPTN member
◉What is the non-profit organization for transplant and procurement
clinicians? . Answer: NATCO
◉OPTN . Answer: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network,
public-private partnership linking all professionals in US donation and
transplantation, goals are to increase number of organs available for
transplant, improve survival rates, promote patient safety and efficient
management
,◉UAGA . Answer: Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, passed in 1968 to
increased number of organs available for transplant, supports first person
authorization
◉What organization is meant to improve survival rates and the number
of organs available for transplant? . Answer: OPTN
◉What act supports first person authorization? . Answer: UAGA
◉UDDA . Answer: Uniform Determination of Death Act, Revised in
1985 to define death as 1. irreversible cessation of respiratory and
circulatory function or 2. irreversible cessation of all brain function
◉UNOS . Answer: United Network for Organ Sharing, private-non-
profit organization that manages organ transplantation system and works
under federal government to bring transplant and procurement
organizations together.
◉Who manages the organ transplantation system? . Answer: UNOS
◉How to OPOs classify death? . Answer: Imminent, Eligible, and
neither
◉What are the two criteria that must be met to consider "imminent
death"? . Answer: Meets eligible death definition but not legally
, declared AND has severe neuro injury requiring vent support without
OBV and lacking 2 BSRs
◉What is the 80/20 rule? . Answer: 80% of donors comes from 20% of
hospitals
◉What is an imminent death? . Answer: A patient that meets death
criteria with a neuro injury but has not been declared
◉What is eligible death? . Answer: A patient who has been declared
BD, under 75, weighs >5kg, BMI<50 with one transplantable organ
◉Age must be under what to be considered eligible death? . Answer: 75
◉To be considered an eligible death the patient must weight how much?
. Answer: 5kg
◉To be considered an eligible death the patient's BMI must be less
than... . Answer: 50
◉How is conversion rate calculated? . Answer: The number of donors
who survived to OR divided by the number of donors who were eligible
