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| Perioperative Care: Preoperative Preparation | Patient-identification-verification, consent-documentation, surgical-site-verification, preoperative-assessment. About 13% of the exam. |
| Perioperative Care: Intraoperative Procedures | Sterile-field-creation-maintenance, gowning-gloving, draping-techniques, instrument-handling-passing. About 45% of the exam. |
| Perioperative Care: Postoperative Procedures | Dressing-application, drain-management, patient-transport, room-turnover-terminal-cleaning. About 7% of the exam. |
| Ancillary Duties: Administrative and Personnel | Communication-teamwork, scheduling-case-management, professional-standards-ethics, regulatory-compliance. About 5% of the exam. |
| Ancillary Duties: Equipment Sterilization and Maintenance | Decontamination-cleaning, disinfection-methods, sterilization-methods, sterilization-monitoring-indicators. About 11% of the exam. |
| Basic Science: Anatomy and Physiology | Musculoskeletal-system, cardiovascular-system, respiratory-system, gastrointestinal-system. About 12% of the exam. |
| Basic Science: Microbiology | Microbial-classification, chain-of-infection, surgical-site-infection-prevention, bloodborne-pathogen-safety. About 4% of the exam. |
| Basic Science: Surgical Pharmacology | Anesthesia-agents-types, medications-on-sterile-field, hemostatic-agents, antibiotics-anti-infectives. About 4% of the exam. |
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