10 Random Questions


When inspired anesthetic gases are humidified

BASIC Equipment & Physics

Compared with general anesthesia, epidural anesthesia for hip arthroplasty is associated with


During laser excision of a vocal cord polyp, the tracheal tube ignites. Which of the following is the most appropriate next step?

ADVANCED Equipment & Physics General

Each of the following drugs increases the duration of succinylcholine action EXCEPT

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Following a thyroidectomy, a patient develops severe dyspnea, inspiratory stridor, and cyanosis in the recovery room. On physical examination, the neck appears full. Attempts at bag-mask ventilation are unsuccessful. Immediate therapy is to


When compared with a healthy 30-year-old man, which of the following respiratory parameters is decreased in an otherwise healthy 80-year-old man?

BASIC Respiratory & Critical Care

Compared with a patient without liver disease, a patient with cirrhosis will have

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

An oxygen-driven anesthesia ventilator with a bellows that ascends during exhalation develops a small hole in the bellows. Which of the following is the most likely effect?


During nitrous oxide anesthesia, which of the following expands most rapidly?

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Which of the following statements concerning isolated mitral stenosis is true?

ADVANCED Cardiac