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CSTSetup Pro

Know every tray before the CST.

Pro unlocks all 190+ surgical setups with the real photos from the room, the full card on 2,700+ instruments, and the flashcards, practice tests and timed exams that tell you exactly what's slipping.

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190+Surgical setups
2,700+Instruments
10,000+Techs scrubbed in
General setups stay free · Scrub in free →
What Pro unlocks

The part you actually study with.

Free gets you every General setup and 5 questions a day. Pro is every specialty, and the system that makes it stick.

  • Every setup, every specialty

    All 190+ back tables with the photos from the room, the instrument list, and the step-by-step walkthrough.

  • Flashcards that schedule themselves

    Any tray, and each instrument comes back right before you would forget it.

  • Practice tests and timed exams

    Built from the live catalogue, with the reason you got it wrong, and a clock that tells you whether you really know the tray.

  • A daily lesson aimed at your exam date

    What's slipping and what's new, 10 a day to start, growing as the date gets closer.

Study and testing

Learn it. Check it. Prove it.

Every setup, every instrument class and every specialty opens three ways: flashcards until it's familiar, a practice test until it's easy, then the exam on the clock. Here's Simple Mastectomy.

Try one · AV Anastomosis - Basilic Vein Transposition

Which of these setups uses the Potts Arteriotomy Scissor?

Right. The Potts Arteriotomy Scissor is on the AV Anastomosis - Basilic Vein Transposition setup.
Not this time. The Potts Arteriotomy Scissor is on the AV Anastomosis - Basilic Vein Transposition setup. In Pro, it comes back until you have it.
One free question. Every tray is in Pro.Unlock every tray
Pro exams

Every setup has a site record. Go take one.

Bronze the day you take the exam. Gold when you run it clean. Platinum when you run it clean under the clock. Diamond belongs to one person per setup: the fastest perfect run on the site. Hold it until somebody takes it from you.

Go Pro and take one

BronzeTake the exam.Your first sitting
SilverPass it.80% or better
GoldPerfect it.100%, one sitting
PlatinumPerfect it, on the clock.100% under the target time
DiamondFastest on the site.One holder per setup
Inside a setup

The whole case, before you walk in.

This is Simple Mastectomy, one of the free General setups: the photos from the room, every instrument on the tray, and the case step by step. Every specialty's setups are built exactly like this, in Pro.

Simple Mastectomy, setup photo

Simple Mastectomy

General · Free· 31· 2

Walkthrough

  1. 1Incision and Dissection
  2. 2Retraction
  3. 3Ties and Clips
  4. 4Longer Pickups
  5. 5Smoke Plume Management

+3 more steps, and the spark notes, positioning and drapes, each step written out in full.

Open the full setup, free

On the tray · 31 instruments

All 31 on this tray

Free or Pro

Free is genuinely useful. Pro is the whole thing.

Freewith an account

  • Browse all 2,759 instrument cards: names, photos and what each one is for
  • Every General setup in full, photos and walkthrough included
  • 5 questions a day, and your readiness score
  • Build and share your own setups

Scrub in, free

Pro

Everything in free, plusthe part you study with

  • All 193 setups across every specialty, with the real photos from the room and the full walkthrough
  • The parts of an instrument card that come from years at the table: cautions, inspection, how to pass it, and every operation it is laid out for
  • Flashcards on any tray, scheduled so each instrument returns right before you would forget it
  • Practice tests built from the live catalogue, with the reason you got it wrong
  • Timed exams that tell you whether you really know a tray, and rank you against everyone else studying it
  • A daily lesson that grows as your exam date gets closer
Before you ask

The honest answers.

Can I cancel?

Any time, from your dashboard, and you keep Pro until the period you already paid for runs out. No email, no phone call, no retention script.

Does it work on my phone?

One account covers the website and the apps. Study on the bus, review on the unit, and your progress is the same everywhere. It lives on the account, not the device.

I haven't set an exam date yet.

You don't need one. Without a date the daily lesson is 10 questions built from what you are weakest on. Set a date later and it grows on its own as the date gets closer.

What happens to my progress if I stop paying?

Nothing is deleted. Your streak, your history and everything you have mastered are still there if you come back, and the free tier keeps working.

Is this enough on its own?

It is the instrument and setup half, done properly: 193 trays and 2,759 instruments, tested until you are quick with them. It is not a full CST review course and does not pretend to be one.

Stop guessing what's on the tray.

Every setup, every instrument, and a study system that knows what you're about to forget. Ten minutes a day until it's boring.