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Suture
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Subjects
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health-sciences
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surgery
Instructions:
Answer 22 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. This refers to how deep the suture needle has to be inserted into the would for closure. This is deep or narrow.
Tensile strength
Multifilament
Wound topography
Straight
2. These are stainless steel and are placed perpendicular to an incision to close a wound.
Staples
Non-absorbable
Flexibility
Tensile strength
3. Has less drag and less space for bacterial growth.
Curved
Monofilament suture
Synthetic absorbable
Suture
4. Has more drag and is stronger.
Absorbable
Capillarity
Multifilament
Standard USP
5. Suture that can be broken down by the body.
Memory
Staples
Absorbable
Chromic surgical gut
6. The ability of suture to return back to its original packaged form.
Memory
Absorbable
Tissue Adhesives
Wound topography
7. Any strand of material that is used to approximate tissue or ligate blood vessels.
Memory
Capillarity
Suture
Curved
8. The ability of a suture material to allow microbes to be carried ('wick') to the interior of the suture.
Capillarity
The ideal suture
Ought
Curved
9. The ease at which the suture is manipulated.
Suture
Flexibility
Curved
Tensile strength
10. These type of needles are manipulated with needle holding forceps.
Capillarity
Memory
Curved
Absorbable
11. 1. Easy to handle 2. Minimal tissue reaction 3. Inhibits bacterial growth 4. Holds a knot 5. Absorbed with minimal reaction
Catgut
Curved
The ideal suture
Chromic surgical gut
12. Broken down by hydrolysis with minimal tissue reaction.
Staples
Flexibility
Tissue Adhesives
Synthetic absorbable
13. The amount of force in psi a suture can withstand before it breaks.
Straight
Tensile strength
Standard USP
Staples
14. 1. Organic 2. Synthetic; braided or non-braided 3. Metallic
Ought
Standard USP
Non-absorbable
Wound topography
15. This denotes the suture diameter from fine-coarse according to their ought.
Flexibility
Staples
Standard USP
Curved
16. This is usually used in declaws - tail docking - and ear crops. Brand names like nexaband and vetabond
The ideal suture
Straight
Monofilament suture
Tissue Adhesives
17. 1. Catgut 2. Chromic surgical gut 3. Synthetic absorbable
Absorbable
Curved
Monofilament suture
Non-absorbable
18. This suture is not broken down by the body. It can remain in the body for up to two years.
Non-absorbable
Chromic surgical gut
Suture
Wound topography
19. These type of needles are manipulated with your fingers.
Tensile strength
Absorbable
Straight
Non-absorbable
20. The unit suture size is measured in. Example 4-0 Which is equivalent to 0000.4.
Memory
Multifilament
Wound topography
Ought
21. Catgut that has been braided or twisted and 'tanned' to increase tensile strength and decrease capillarity
Chromic surgical gut
Tensile strength
Non-absorbable
Absorbable
22. Suture that is broken down by the bodies inflammatory process/cells. Made from bovine or sheep intestines.
Curved
Flexibility
Wound topography
Catgut