10 Random Questions


During uncomplicated mask induction with halothane and 50% nitrous oxide in oxygen in a 6-month-old infant with a large ventricular septal defect and valvular pulmonic stenosis, SpO2 decreases from 85% (room air) to 60%; heart rate is 100 bpm and blood pressure is 62/40 mmHg. The most appropriate management is to

ADVANCED Pediatric Cardiac

A woman at 39 weeks' gestation has been in labor for 12 hours. She has had nausea and vomiting for the past eight hours. Maternal arterial blood gas values are PaO1 85 mmHg, PaCO2 31 mmHg, and pH 7.50. Which of the following is the most likely cause of fetal distress occurring at this time?

ADVANCED OB

Assignment of a patient to an ASA physical status category is used to

BASIC General

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

BASIC Equipment & Physics

Compared with thiopental, methohexital is characterized by

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

At the end of an anesthetic in which a nondepolarizing muscle relaxant was administered, the least number of receptors are blocked

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Which of the following increases blood flow to the lower lobe of the right lung?


Which of the following statements concerning diabetes mellitus in pregnancy is true?

ADVANCED OB

A 23-year-old man who is receiving his first anesthetic has not resumed spontaneous ventilation two hours after receiving succinylcholine. The train-of-four monitor shows no twitch response. Which of the following is the most likely cholinesterase genotype in this patient?

ADVANCED Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics General

Which of the following perioperative interventions decreases the risk for renal insufficiency in patients undergoing aortic aneurysm repair?

ADVANCED General