Hello and welcome to the Zero to Finals podcast. My name is Tom and you may be able to hear that

I've got a bit of a cold at the moment. So rather than put you through a recording of me with a

horse voice and a cold, I thought I would use some older recordings that I have of

surgery questions. So instead of moving on to renal medicine, we're going to go through some

short answer questions on surgery. In this format, I ask a question, give a pause for you to think

of the answer, and then I give you the answer. So hopefully that's a good test of your knowledge

and helps you train that information. Testing yourself is a fantastic way to improve your memory of

information and give you feedback on whether you know the information or not. And you can find

loads of questions on the whole of surgery and suit to me medicine at members.

com.com. So I recommend visiting that website and checking out all the resources there.

That's members.0.0.com. So let's get straight into it.

Question one. What is the definition of a fistula?

An abnormal connection between two epithelial surfaces.

Question 2. What operation describes the removal of the rectosygmoid colon with closure of the anorectal stump and formation of a

colostomy. A Hartman procedure. Question 3. What operation involves removal of the head of the

pancreas, the duodenum, the gallbladder and the bile duct.

A Whipple procedure.

Question four.

What incision is used for an open colostisectomy?

A cocher incision.

Question 5. What incision. Question 5.

What incision is used for a renal transplant?

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