10 Random Questions


A 22-year-old woman at 33 weeks' gestation has abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding after sustaining blunt trauma to the abdomen. Heart rate is 125 bpm, blood pressure is 98/65 mmHg, and respiratory rate is 20/min. Fetal heart rate is 100 bpm. Which of the following is the most appropriate management?


A 64-year-old man with a large pancreatic tumor has severe abdominal pain that radiates to the low back. Which of the following is the most appropriate management?


Which of the following statements concerning the pharmacokinetics of nondepolarizing muscle relaxants is true?


A 2.3-kg 1-day-old term infant requires repair of a gastroschisis. Which of the following combinations is most appropriate for intraoperative fluid management?

ADVANCED Pediatric

A 66-year-old man with aortic regurgitation is brought to the operating room for aortic valve replacement after having received morphine, scopolamine premedication. PO2 is 40 mmHg in a sample of pulmonary artery blood drawn 10 minutes after the patient started breathing pure oxygen. This finding is compatible with

ADVANCED Cardiac

A 24-year-old man who sustained multiple rib fractures in a motor vehicle accident has air leaks through bilateral chest tubes. Which of the following is most likely following initiation of high-frequency jet ventilation?


The last muscle to be affected by an interscalene brachial plexus block is the

ADVANCED Regional & Pain

Pulmonary artery occlusion pressure

ADVANCED Equipment & Physics General Cardiac

Each of the following increases arterial to end-tidal carbon dioxide tension difference EXCEPT

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care

To measure the contribution of intrapulmonary shunting to arterial hypoxemia, which of the following measurements are necessary? (Assume normal cardiac output and anatomy.)