10 Random Questions


A patient has tonic movements of the head and neck, nystagmus, and slurred speech after receiving metoclopramide for nausea after nitrous oxide-opioid anesthesia. The most appropriate pharmacologic treatment is

ADVANCED Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

A 78-year-old man who is scheduled for an inguinal hernia repair has a preoperative ECG showing left bundle branch block. He has had no symptoms of cardiovascular disease. This ECG finding most likely indicates

BASIC General

A patient has hoarseness after undergoing surgery involving the aortic arch. The most likely cause is an injury to which of the following nerves?

ADVANCED General Regional & Pain

Each of the following can produce adequate analgesia for the first stage of labor EXCEPT


Which of the following is an effect of hypothermia in neonates?

ADVANCED Pediatric

In clinical anesthesia practice, the term "informed consent" is best described as a legal concept in which patients

BASIC General

You are asked to evaluate a 2000-g male infant three hours after vaginal delivery because of a respiratory rate of 50/min, pulse rate of 115 bpm, and the following arterial blood gas values while breathing room air: PaO2 64 mmHg, PaCO2 43 mmHg, and pH 7.33. His mother received meperidine 75 mg two hours before delivery. Appropriate management includes

ADVANCED Pediatric

Compared with the adult airway, the neonatal airway has which of the following characteristics?

ADVANCED Pediatric

Which of the following situations is most likely related to paraplegia following repair of a descending thoracic aortic aneurysm?

ADVANCED General

A 6-year-old boy with spina bifida and a chronic indwelling urinary catheter has severe hypotension and hypoxemia during augmentation cystoplasty. Which of the following is the most likely cause?