A 35-year-old woman undergoes a one-hour abdominal liposuction procedure under general anesthesia. During the procedure, 2000 ml of crystalloid is administered and 800 ml of fatty tissue is extracted. Thirty minutes postoperatively, blood pressure is 75/40 mmHg and heart rate is 100 bpm; SpO2 is 94% on room air. Which of the following is the most likely cause of these findings?
A 70-kg patient with no acute bleeding has a preoperative platelet count of 40,000/mm3. Following preoperative transfusion of platelets 10 units, the predicted platelet count would be
Forty-eight hours after thoracotomy, a patient's T6-7 epidural catheter is removed and the distal 2 cm is noted to be missing. The patient felt no pain during removal and neurologic examination shows no abnormalities. After informing the patient, which of the following is the most appropriate next step in management?
To predict the requirement for isoflurane in milliliters of vapor per minute during closed circuit anesthesia, each of the following is necessary EXCEPT
Which of the following statements concerning naloxone is true?
(A) Elimination half-life is longer than that of the majority of mu-receptor opioids
(B) It does not cross the placenta
(C) It has mixed agonist-antagonist effects
(D) It increases the MAC of inhaled anesthetic drugs
(E) It relieves opioid-induced spasm of the sphincter of Oddi
E
A child has tachypnea immediately after reintubation for intractable laryngospasm. Oxygen saturation is 78% at an FiO2 of 1.0. A radiograph of the chest taken 15 minutes later is most likely to show
(A) bilateral pleural effusions
(B) diffuse homogenous pulmonary infiltrates
(C) patchy central infiltrates of the right upper lobe