Clinical Science Practice Test 10

1. What is the difference between blindness and cataract?

Cataract is clouding up of the cornea while blindness happens if either retina, optic nerve or the occipital lobe is injured or damages

Blindness is when cilliary muscles do not contract properly while cataract is when the eyeball has gotten deformed

Cataract can be corrected with surgery while blindness can be cured by increasing the intake of vitamin A

Cataract happens in the retina and blindness happens to cornea

2. Jarvik 7 and AbioCor are names of _________

Artificial Hearts

Artificial Brains

Artificial Liver

Artificial Kidney

3. What form must be filled before starting a surgery?

SF 523

SF 521

SF 522

SF 520

4. Which of the following is not a reason for blindness?

Low blood supply to the cornea

Damage to the retina

Injury in the occipital lobe of the brain

Damage to the optic nerve

5. In order to maintain the levels of sugar in the blood, what devices are commonly being used?

Gluco Strips

Potable Pulse Oximeter

Insulin Pump

Glucometer

6. What stops the X - Rays from infecting the person in the control room?

Protective gear worn by the person conducting X - Ray

Lead Patches on the glass

Thick Glass

absorption of X - Rays by the room

7. When a subclavian vein or a femoral vein is used for dialysis, what kind of incision/insertion is made?

Shunt

Graft

Catheter

Fistula

8. When is a cochlear implant used?

When the fluid in the eustancian tube has been dis-balanced

When the ossicular chain has been damaged

When the tympanic membrane has been damaged

When the sensory hair in the auditory canal have been damaged

9. When the food is directly given in the veins, it is called ______ nutrition.

Parenteral

Enteral

Saline

Intravenous

10. In a heart, what is most commonly replaced?

Auricles

Artery and/or Vein

Ventricles

Valves