10 Random Questions


The best premedication regimen for a known active narcotic addict would include

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics Regional & Pain

A Fluotec vaporizer is set to administer halothane 4% using a fresh gas flow of 4 L/min. If the diluent gas flow is increased to 8 L/min, and at the same time the room temperature increases from 20 to 25°C, the approximate concentration of halothane delivered to the patient would be

BASIC Equipment & Physics

An unvaccinated health care worker is stuck by a needle contaminated with blood from an HBsAg-positive patient. Which of the following statements concerning this situation is true?

BASIC Transfusions & Fluids

In patients with pregnancy-induced hypertension, magnesium sulfate is most likely to

ADVANCED OB

A healthy 57-year-old man with a ureteral calculus is scheduled for immersion extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. Which of the following statements is true?

ADVANCED Equipment & Physics General

During controlled ventilation, which of the following will cause an increase in end-tidal carbon dioxide tension with a normal waveform on the capnograph?

BASIC General

A celiac plexus block effectively relieves pain at which of the following sites?


A 45-kg, 80-year-old woman undergoes pin fixation of the right hip in the lateral decubitus position under spinal anesthesia. One day after the operation, she cannot move her left ankle or foot actively. The most likely cause is

ADVANCED Regional & Pain

Pulsus paradoxus is commonly seen during anesthesia in patients with each of the following conditions EXCEPT

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care General

Microatelectasis 48 hours after abdominal surgery is most consistently manifested by

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care