10 Random Questions


After administration of a single dose of vecuronium, function returns last to which of the following muscles?

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics

Which of the following statements concerning the management of diabetes mellitus during pregnancy is true?

ADVANCED OB

Compared with dopamine, dobutamine

BASIC Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics Cardiac

A healthy, 18-year-old, 65-kg woman undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy is being monitored with a properly functioning and calibrated capnograph. The end-tidal carbon dioxide concentration is 6%, and the inspired carbon dioxide concentration is 1%. This may be caused by each of the following EXCEPT

BASIC Equipment & Physics

A 31-year-old man received an uneventful epidural anesthetic for arthroscopy of the knee and meniscectomy. Twenty-four hours later he still has painless flaccid paralysis in both legs. This clinical presentation is most consistent with

ADVANCED Regional & Pain

An 87-kg 64-year-old woman in good general health is undergoing a right knee arthroplasty while in the supine position with general anesthesia consisting of enflurane 2% and nitrous oxide 50% in oxygen. She is breathing spontaneously through a 7-mm endotracheal tube. During the first 30 minutes of the procedure, the arterial oxygen saturation measured by pulse oximetry decreases from 98% to 92%. The most likely cause of the desaturation is


An otherwise healthy 42-year-old woman is referred for management of pain associated with adenocarcinoma of the breast and metastasis to the anterior body of L3. She perceives the pain as moderate and currently takes no pain medication. Her oncologist estimates her life expectancy to be 18 months. The most appropriate initial management is

ADVANCED Regional & Pain

In the operating room

BASIC Equipment & Physics

A 2.2-kg, 6-hour-old neonate is to undergo gastrostomy followed by repair of a tracheoesophageal fistula. During induction with halothane, air, and oxygen, the abdomen becomes distended. Appropriate management is to

ADVANCED Pediatric

Recommendations for maximal allowable trace anesthesia gases are based on

BASIC Equipment & Physics