Questions for State Rigorous Exam in Surgery – General Medicine

General surgery

1.      Asepsis, anti-sepsis, disinfection, sterilisation

2.      Wounds – classification, healing, healing disorders, temporary and definite treatment

3.      Strategy for diagnostics and therapy of injections in surgery

4.      Sepsis

5.      Anaerobic and mixed infections

6.      Purulent infections of skin, subcutaneous tissue and skin adnexa

7.      Panaritia and purulent infections in the hand

8.      Nosocomial infections

9.      Pathophysiological changes caused by surgery and trauma

10.  Metabolism disorders in surgical patients and their correction

11.  Nutritional issues in surgery

12.  Basic algorithm for diagnostics of surgical disorders

13.  General basis of surgical therapy

14.  Preparation of a patient for surgery

15.  Surgical procedure – general rules, terminology of basic surgeries, instrumentation

16.  Basic surgical procedures of a general nature

17.  Basics of plastic and reconstructive surgery

18.  Basic rules for post-operation care

19.  Complications in the surgical wound

20.  Post-operation gastrointestinal complications

21.  Post-operation respiratory complications

22.  Post-operation circulatory and thrombembolic complications

23.  Post-operation urinary, allergic and neurological complications

24.  Blood transfusion

25.  Shock

26.  Basic procedures in first aid and pre-hospital life support

27.  Heat injury

28.  Crush syndrome, reperfusion syndrome, blast syndrome

29.  Basic characteristics of war surgery

30.  General issues of oncological surgery

Special surgery

1. Surgery of the thyroid gland
2. Surgery of parathyroid glands
3. Pleural syndromes
4. Primary and secondary lung tumours
5. Injury to the chest
6. Mediastinal inflammation and tumours
7. Breast inflammation and tumours
8. External and internal hernias
9. Non-neoplastic oesophageal disorders
10. Gastroduodenal ulcer
11. Tumours of the oesophagus and stomach
12. Crohn’s disease
13. Inflammatory disorders of the large bowel
14. Non-neoplastic disorders of the anorectum
15. Colorectal carcinoma
16. Benign and malignant disorders of the liver
17. Injuries to the liver and spleen
18. Cholecystolithiasis and its complications
19. Differential diagnostic of obstructive icterus
20. Pancreatic tumours
21. Bleeding to the gastrointestinal tract
22. Acute appendicitis
23. Inflammatory acute abdomen
24. Ileous acute abdomen
25. Peripheral vascular disorder of the lower limbs
26. Diabetic foot
27. Aneurysm of aorta and peripheral arteries
28. Acute limb ischemia
29. Organ transplantation
30. The most frequent surgical disorders in paediatrics

Neurosurgery, urology, cardiac surgery

1.      Diagnostic procedures, methods of treatment and perioperative care in neurosurgery

2.      Intracranial hypertension

3.      Surgery of congenital and developmental disorders of nervous system

4.      Head and brain trauma

5.      Spinal trauma with spinal cord and spinal roots trauma

6.      Intracranial expansive lesions (tumorous and nontumorous expansions, vascular lesions, inflammatory lesions)

7.      Vascular lesions of brain (ischemic and hemorrhagic lesions)

8.      Expansions in spinal channel, spinal cord tumorous lesions, spinal cord and roots compressive syndromes

9.      Surgery of peripheral nerves

10.  Functional neurosurgery (treatment of pain, epilepsy and movement disorders, lesional functional neurosurgery)

11.  General urology

12.  Congenital urogenital anomalies

13.  Uroinfection

14.  Tumours of kidney, suprarenal gland and urinary bladder

15.  Diseases of prostate

16.  Diseases of male genital

17.  Urolithiasis

18.  Neurogenic urinary bladder, urinary incontinence

19.  Andrology

20.  Urological traumatology, emergency in urology

21.  Principles of extracorporeal circulation and circulatory support systems

22.  Surgical treatment of ischemic heart disease

23.  Complications of ischemic heart disease and their surgical treatment

24.  Acquired valvular heart diseases and their surgical treatment

25.  Frequent congenital heart diseases and principles of surgical treatment

26.  Diagnosis and treatment of  ascending aorta and aortic arch diseases

27.  Diagnosis and treatment of aortic dissection

28.  Heart transplantation

29.  Postoperative care in cardiac surgery

30.  Heart trauma