10 Random Questions


A 25-year-old woman undergoes a difficult open cholecystectomy during anesthesia with isoflurane, nitrous oxide, fentanyl, and vecuronium. Five units of blood are administered intraoperatively. Two days later, the patient has mildly increased serum transaminase concentrations and markedly increased alkaline phosphatase and direct bilirubin concentrations. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

ADVANCED General

Infants with untreated pyloric stenosis are at increased risk for each of the following EXCEPT

ADVANCED Pediatric

A 36-year-old woman develops acute airway obstruction 24 hours after total thyroidectomy. The most likely cause is

ADVANCED General

A 62-year-old patient undergoes resection of a descending thoracic aneurysm under anesthesia with morphine, nitrous oxide, oxygen, and pancuronium. In spite of normal somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) during the procedure, the patient has paraplegia postoperatively. The factor most likely responsible for failure to note the deficit intraoperatively is


A 25-year-old man requires exploratory laparotomy following a motor vehicle accident. He is acutely intoxicated with alcohol. Which of the following is the most likely result of the alcohol ingestion?

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics General

A 58-year-old man undergoes repeat coronary artery bypass grafting. Which of the following is LEAST likely to decrease the need for exogenous blood transfusion?


Compared with healthy nonhypertensive patients, in patients with untreated hypertension undergoing anesthesia and operation,

ADVANCED General

Which of the following is the primary physiologic response in a neonate exposed to a hypothermic environment?

ADVANCED Pediatric

Which of the following is the most likely effect of infrarenal cross clamping of the aorta without pharmacologic manipulation?

ADVANCED General

Systemic hypothermia to 30°C is accompanied by