10 Random Questions


A patient undergoes differential spinal block for evaluation of persistent foot pain. If the pain returns coincident with a decrease in skin temperature, which of the following is the most appropriate conclusion?

ADVANCED Regional & Pain

In a spontaneously breathing patient, each of the following increases the work of breathing EXCEPT

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care

In a patient who has undergone cholecystectomy, which of the following is the most likely pulmonary effect of systemically administered opioids?

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Each of the following increases arterial to end-tidal carbon dioxide tension difference EXCEPT

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care

Inhalation induction of anesthesia is more rapid in a 6-month-old infant than in an adult because infants have

ADVANCED Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics Pediatric

Which of the following is described by the standard deviation during analysis of the results of a clinical study?

BASIC General

The pin index system

BASIC Equipment & Physics

A 64-year-old, 87-kg woman in good general health is undergoing a right knee arthroplasty while in the supine position with general anesthesia consisting of enflurane 2% and nitrous oxide 50% in oxygen. She is breathing spontaneously through a 7-mm endotracheal tube. During the first 30 minutes of the procedure, the arterial oxygen saturation measured by pulse oximetry decreases from 98% to 92%. The most likely cause of the desaturation is

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care General

A patient with a fasting blood glucose concentration of 100 mg/dL undergoes a four-hour operation under general anesthesia without intraoperative administration of glucose. On emergence the most likely finding will be

ADVANCED General

A 40-year-old patient has pain following injection of 8 ml of thiopental 2.5% through a right radial artery catheter. His hand remains pink. Which of the following is the most appropriate next step?

ADVANCED General