10 Random Questions


When using a Venturi face mask with a reservoir bag

BASIC Equipment & Physics

In a patient undergoing liver transplantation, sodium bicarbonate and calcium chloride are administered immediately before reperfusion of the transplanted liver to counteract

ADVANCED General

The principal rationale for the use of warmed humidified inspired anesthetic gases in children is to

ADVANCED Equipment & Physics Pediatric

In pregnant patients, which of the following is an effect of the long-term use of cocaine?

ADVANCED OB

A 60-kg, 45-year-old woman who takes digoxin for atrial fibrillation receives furosemide 40 mg and mannitol 60 g during resection of a supratentorial meningioma. After initiation of hyperventilation to decrease PaC02 from 35 to 20 mmHg, multifocal premature ventricular contractions are noted on the ECG. The most likely cause is


Which of the following is the most sensitive indicator of impending renal failure following trauma?

ADVANCED General

Block of the superficial cervical plexus is performed at which location?

ADVANCED Regional & Pain

As part of a preoperative evaluation, a patient had a thallium scan showing a 'cold spot' over the left ventricle that occurs with moderate exercise and disappears at rest. This most likely indicates

BASIC General Cardiac

Compared with an induction dose of thiopental (4 mg/kg), an induction dose of propofol (2.5 mg/kg) produces

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Compared with blood anticoagulated with CPD, blood stored in CPDA-1 has

BASIC Transfusions & Fluids