10 Random Questions


In an unpremedicated, spontaneously breathing patient, an alveolar halothane concentration of 0.74% in oxygen is consistently associated with

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Which of the following statements concerning flumazenil is true?

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Which of the following will have the LEAST effect on the shape of the autoregulatory curve for cerebral blood flow?


In patients who have undergone cardiopulmonary bypass, administration of milrinone is most likely to result in an increase in which of the following?

ADVANCED Cardiac

Which of the following is a side effect of beta-adrenergic blockade?

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

In an Infant, spinal anesthesia to a sensory level of T8 is achieved with tetracaine administered at the L2-3 interspace. Compared with spinal anesthesia to the same sensory level in an adult, this anesthetic is associated with a

ADVANCED Pediatric Regional & Pain

A 26-year-old patient with multiple trauma is admitted to the intensive care unit postoperatively. The early development of polyuria, hypotension, low urine sodium excretion, high serum osmolality, and normal serum creatinine concentration is best explained by

ADVANCED General

In a normally functioning circle anesthesia system, if the length of the inspiratory and expiratory hose is doubled, the mechanical dead space will be

BASIC Equipment & Physics

Each of the following findings is characteristic of restrictive lung disease EXCEPT

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care

A 60-kg, 70-year-old man requires open reduction and internal fixation of an intertrochanteric fracture sustained 24 hours ago. Serum creatinine concentration is 1 mg/dl and blood urea nitrogen concentration is 40 mg/dl. The most likely cause of these findings is

BASIC General