10 Random Questions


A patient has decreased lung compliance and hypoxemia after a 30-minute episode of laryngospasm following extubation. The most likely cause is

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care General

A 30-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after being rescued from a house fire. With the trachea intubated and FiO2 at 1.0, arterial blood gas values are PaO2 495 mmHg, PaCO2 28 mmHg, and pH 7.28. Hemoglobin saturation measured by co-oximeter is 50%. The most appropriate next step is to

ADVANCED General

Which of the following must be considered during perioperative management of a patient on long-term lithium therapy?

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics General

During attempted awake intubation, the patient gags when the laryngoscope presses on the base of the tongue. Which of the following cranial nerves is responsible for the afferent limb of this reflex?

BASIC Regional & Pain

Electrocautery units operate at frequencies between 300 kHz and 2 mHz to

BASIC Equipment & Physics

In a patient with adult respiratory distress syndrome who is being mechanically ventilated, which of the following findings indicates the most severe disease?

ADVANCED Respiratory & Critical Care

Halothane

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Which of the following findings necessitates the preoperative insertion of a ventricular pacemaker in a 48-year-old man scheduled to undergo cholecystectomy?

ADVANCED Cardiac

Each of the following would slow induction with a volatile anesthetic agent EXCEPT


A patient has severe hypotension, bronchospasm, and edema of the upper airway after injection of radiocontrast medium during cerebral angiography. The most appropriate immediate treatment is administration of

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics General