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10 Random Questions

An 18-year-old woman has knee pain during arthroscopy performed with femoral and sciatic nerve blocks for repair of a torn medial meniscus. The most appropriate management is addition of which of the following nerve blocks?

(A) Deep peroneal
(B) Obturator
(C) Popliteal
(D) Saphenous
(E) Superficial peroneal

ADVANCED Regional & Pain

Which of the following statements about thiopental is true?

(A) Rapid uptake into maternal tissues limits its transfer to the fetus
(B) Its short duration of action is due to its extensive binding to plasma proteins
(C) Accumulation in fat leads to acute tolerance
(D) Alkalinity of solution causes respiratory depression
(E) Uptake into brain is slowed by respiratory acidosis

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Which of the following muscle relaxants in an ED95 dose would have the longest duration of action in a patient with renal failure?

(A) Atracurium
(B) Metocurine
(C) Pancuronium
(D) d-Tubocurarine
(E) Vecuronium

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

A 35-kg child requires mechanical ventilation with 100% oxygen at a tidal volume of 350 mL and a rate of 20/min during a severe asthma attack. The most likely cause of severe hypotension after initiating mechanical ventilation is

(A) hypoxic circulatory depression
(B) inadequate expiratory time
(C) increased pulmonary vascular resistance
(D) respiratory alkalosis
(E) tension pneumothorax

ADVANCED Respiratory & Critical Care Pediatric

The syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion is characterized by

(A) ADH secretion unrelated to serum osmolality
(B) decreased ADH secretion in response to hypovolemia
(C) highly dilute urine
(D) hypernatremia
(E) negative water balance

ADVANCED General

Which of the effects of epidural morphine is most resistant to intravenous naloxone?

(A) Analgesia
(B) Nausea
(C) Pruritus
(D) Respiratory depression
(E) Urinary retention

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

A 30-year-old man has had burning pain, allodynia, and edema of the hand for six weeks after sustaining a forearm fracture. Appropriate treatment includes each of the following EXCEPT

(A) physical therapy, employing stress loading
(B) oral prazosin
(C) intravenous regional sympathetic block with guanethidine
(D) stellate ganglion block with 6% phenol
(E) transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

ADVANCED Regional & Pain

Compared with intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV), intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV)

(A) better maintains cardiac output
(B) provides less than full mechanical ventilatory support
(C) requires a greater level of sedation
(D) requires a higher FlO2
(E) requires a lower inspiratory flow rate

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care

A 26-year-old woman has persistent uterine bleeding following a normal spontaneous delivery without anesthesia. The uterus is firm on manual examination. Which of the following anesthetics is most appropriate for manual extraction of the placenta?

(A) Halothane
(B) Pudendal block with lidocaine
(C) Subarachnoid tetracaine
(D) Thiopental
(E) Vecuronium

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

(A) is inactivated by irradiation
(B) is transmitted by cryoprecipitate
(C) is transmitted by 5% albumin
(D) passes through intact dermis
(E) provokes an immediate antibody response

BASIC General