10 Random Questions


Which of the following chemotherapeutic drugs is a cause of pulmonary fibrosis?

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

The following hemodynamic values are obtained two hours after coronary artery bypass surgery: Cardiac index 1.7 L/min/m2; Pulm Art. Occ. Pressure 22 mmHg; MAP 60 mmHg; Urine volume 0.2 ml/kg/hr. The most appropriate management is

ADVANCED Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics Cardiac

Halothane

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

During general anesthesia with spontaneous ventilation, a patient has a VD/VT of 0.5. Which of the following is most likely to decrease the ratio?

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care

Increasing preload, systemic vascular resistance and heart rate will best maintain hemodynamic stability in patients with

BASIC Cardiac

A programmable DVI pacemaker can be inhibited or inactivated by each of the following EXCEPT


A 13-year-old African American boy has severe abdominal pain after debridement of an open fracture of the lower extremity. His hemoglobin concentration is 10 g/dl and a peripheral blood smear shows elongated crescent-shaped erythrocytes. The most appropriate initial therapy is


During attempted awake intubation, the patient gags when the laryngoscope presses on the base of the tongue. Which of the following cranial nerves is responsible for the afferent limb of this reflex?

BASIC Regional & Pain

A 30-kg patient with asthma is receiving general anesthesia and being mechanically ventilated with a measured tidal volume of 300 mL. Increasing the fresh gas flow from 3 L/min to 9 L/min without changing the ventilatory rate or I:E ratio will result in

BASIC Equipment & Physics Respiratory & Critical Care

The ECG strip shown is recorded as a patient with a permanent transvenous DDD pacemaker enters the operating room. These changes indicate that the pacemaker is

BASIC General Cardiac