Surgery for the Elderly: 70-90

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1. The list of elderly body parts that cannot be used in surgery is
  a. increasing
  b. shrinking
  c. staying the same
  d. irrelevant
2. The letters "___" after a surgeon's name tell you that he or she is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
  a. MD
  b. Surg
  c. FACS
  d. FADS
3. The effects of osteoarthritis _____ as people age.
  a. accumulate
  b. increases some
  c. decreases some
  d. do not change
4. An example of minimal invasive surgery is
  a. shortcut
  b. keywhole
  c. keyhole
  d. keycut
5. Surgery volume of a good surgeon should be one or two a
  a. half-day
  b. day
  c. week
  d. month
6. Advance age ____ a risk factor, everything else being equal
  a. is not
  b. is seldom
  c. is never
  d. is
7. Specifically, older patients have a significantly higher risk of
  a. pulmonary edema
  b. heart attack
  c. abnormal heart rhythm
  d. all 3
8. AHRQ research showed that about ___ percent of patients undergoing knee replacement surgery, whose average age was 65, had complications.
  a. 8
  b. 18
  c. 28
  d. 38
9. A surgeon reports that "the ___ you do on them, the better the elderly recover."
  a. more
  b. less
  c. smaller incision
  d. larger incision
10. The spread of minimal invasive techniques has been the ____ forces behing the increase in surgery of older patients.
  a. weak
  b. slowing
  c. driving
  d. uncertain
11. One chartacterisitic of minimal invasive surgery is ___operative time.
  a. longer
  b. shorter
  c. uncertain
  d. certain
12. Reactions to medications ____ with age.
  a. do not change
  b. change little
  c. never change
  d. change