10 Random Questions
A 50-year-old woman develops stridor 10 hours after undergoing thyroidectomy. The most appropriate management is administration of which of the following drugs?
- (A) Albuterol
- (B) Calcium chloride
- (C) Ipratropium bromide
- (D) Racemic epinephrine
- (E) Triiodothyronine
Which of the following statements concerning absorption of irrigation fluid during transurethral resection of the prostate is true?
- (A) Hydrostatic pressure has minimal effect on the amount of fluid absorbed
- (B) Typically 10 to 30 ml of fluid per minute are absorbed
- (C) Use of iso-osmotic solutions decreases the risk of hyponatremia
- (D) CNS complications are independent of the type of fluid used
- (E) Spinal anesthesia to T6 will mask the symptoms of overhydration
To detect the delivery of a hypoxic gas mixture, the optimal location for an oxygen analyzer in this circle is
- (A) 1
- (B) 2
- (C) 3
- (D) 4
- (E) 5
Which of the following is most likely to decrease in the affected area following a paravertebral lumbar sympathetic block?
- (A) Cutaneous blood flow
- (B) Pinprick sensation
- (C) Sweating
- (D) Temperature sensation
- (E) Venous capacitance
Immediately after a retrobulbar block for cataract surgery, the eye grossly protrudes and the patient has the sensation of pressure in the eye. The most appropriate initial intervention is
- (A) hyperventilation
- (B) surgical drainage of a hematoma
- (C) manual compression of the globe
- (D) administration of atropine intravenously
- (E) administration of mannitol intravenously
Which of the following opioids is vagolytic?
- (A) Morphine
- (B) Meperidine
- (C) Sufentanil
- (D) Nalbuphine
- (E) Alfentanil
Which of the following is a characteristic of phase II neuromuscular block?
- (A) It is diagnosed by the intravenous administration of calcium
- (B) It is potentiated by edrophonium
- (C) It produces nondepolarizing train-of-four characteristics
- (D) It requires evaluation for pseudocholinesterase deficiency
- (E) It requires less succinylcholine than a phase I block
A patient has a heart rate of 110 bpm one year after heart transplantation. His tachycardia is most likely the result of
- (A) altered baroreceptor sensitivity
- (B) cardiac denervation
- (C) compensation for a fixed stroke volume
- (D) cyclosporine
- (E) prednisone
The Bain circuit
- (A) provides nearly identical delivered and inspired anesthetic concentrations
- (B) has the fresh gas flow inlet near the reservoir bag
- (C) is a nonrebreathing circuit at any fresh gas flow rate
- (D) is most efficient during spontaneous ventilation
- (E) has a time constant greater than 1 minute for change in inspired anesthetic concentrations
In a normally functioning circle anesthesia system, if the length of the inspiratory and expiratory hose is doubled, the mechanical dead space will be
- (A) halved
- (B) unchanged
- (C) doubled
- (D) quadrupled
- (E) dependent on compression volume