During an appendectomy, the surgeon exposes the appendix and is ready to grasp it. Which instrument should the CST in the scrub role anticipate that the surgeon will request?

At the completion of an anastamosis of the intestines, the instruments used on the colon are considered contaminated and are _____.

The inner layer of the wall of the digestive tract is called the _____.

All of the following are parts of the stomach except _____.

Bariatric surgery treats _____.

Muscle-_____ incisions are those that follow the length of the muscle fibers and are not cut manually.

The _____ are sections of the small intestines suspended from the abdominal wall by a sheet of vascular tissue called the mesentery.

The suture on the mucosal layer of an anastamosis would be _____.

When scrubbing a laparotomy, the scrub places the mayo stand over the patient’s _____.

The Roux-en-Y procedure is performed to bypass a large percentage of the stomach and re-establish continuity from the stomach to the _____.