Ear, Nose, and Throat- True and False

Have a drain and nerve stimulator available for procedures involving nasal pharynx and ____________

Keep suction available at all times in ________ surgeries?

For hemilaryngectomy the total loss of natural voice can be quite traumatic psychologically and breathing is _____ through a tracheal stoma

Check the nail bed of the patient in respiratory distress

Use suction whenever drilling bone to prevent burning

Have two separate suction units available, one for the circulator and one for the surgical procedure?

The very small frazier suction tips frequently become blocked with bone, dust particulars and other tissue fragments. Keep several suction tips of the same size in your instrument set?

When the operating room microscope is in use, continually clean and examine the microscope instruments using a lint free cloth. Any speck of blood can be distracting under the microscope

Monitor for rapid changes in positive or negative pressure in the middle ear which can be very harmful, use of nitrous oxide as an anesthetic inhalant may well contribute to rapid changes in pressure, causing serious disruption or destruction of the inner ear components susceptible patient?

Otologic procedures are often complicated by delicate small sized bony structures of the throat?

Report any unusual facial or eyelid movement immediately to the surgeon?

All ear procedures require staff to modify the room to setup and accommodate the operative microscope?

Otologic procedures are often complicated by constantly keeping an eye on the surgical field while the surgeon is viewing the surgical site through the microscope?

Nasal packing will inhibit breathing through the mouth?

When handing the surgeon an instrument during otologic procedure remove the unwanted instrument and place the desired instrument directly into the surgeons hands this may also require guiding the opposite end into the otoscope?