10 Random Questions


Monitoring of a patient with a closed head injury shows the following pressures: Intracranial pressure 30 mmHg, Central venous pressure 5 mmHg, Mean arterial pressure 65 mmHg, Peak airway pressure 25 cmH,0. The cerebral perfusion pressure is


Which of the following is an effect of metoclopramide?

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

In a patient with sickle cell anemia, which of the following is LEAST likely to trigger sickling?


Physiologically, coronary blood flow relates most directly to

BASIC Cardiac

Pulmonary artery occlusion pressure

ADVANCED Equipment & Physics General Cardiac

Phase II neuromuscular block is characterized by

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

A 73-year-old woman with a preoperative serum creatinine concentration of 2.1 mg/dl develops oliguria during enflurane anesthesia. Urine sodium concentration is 10 mEq/L and urine osmolality is 450 mOsm/L. The most likely cause of these findings is

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Which of the following processes is primarily responsible for the decrease in core body temperature that occurs during the first hour of general anesthesia?

BASIC General

A 57-year-old man who weighs 150 kg and is 170 cm (67 in) tall is scheduled for cholecystectomy. He has a 100 pack-year smoking history. Which of the following findings on pulmonary function testing are most likely?

ADVANCED Respiratory & Critical Care

The patient whose flow-volume loop is shown on the right most likely has