10 Random Questions


An 8-kg, 1-year-old boy is scheduled for a bilateral inguinal hernia repair. If regional anesthesia is to be used for post-operative analgesia, which of the following statements is true?

ADVANCED Pediatric Regional & Pain

Hypothermia to 29°C will decrease

BASIC General

A tourniquet with dual bladders is being used for intravenous regional anesthesia of the upper extremity. At what point in the procedure should the distal tourniquet be inflated?

ADVANCED Regional & Pain

The most likely cause of this capnographic tracing obtained just after laryngoscopy and intubation is

BASIC Equipment & Physics General

Which of the following is the primary factor regulating normal coronary blood flow?

BASIC Cardiac

A 64-year-old man is scheduled to have an elective right colon resection under nitrous oxide, oxygen, enflurane anesthesia. Following a myocardial infarction two years ago, a programmable VVI pacemaker was inserted for complete heart block. A pre induction rhythm strip is shown. Based on this EKG finding, the most appropriate action is to


Characteristics of postdural puncture headache include


A subarachnoid block to a sensory level of the second thoracic dermatome is associated with each of the following EXCEPT

BASIC Regional & Pain

In a patient with asthma, which of the following drugs used to treat supraventricular tachycardia is LEAST likely to induce bronchospasm?


After two hours of anesthesia with halothane 1.2% and oxygen, nitrous oxide 75% is added to the inspired gas mixture. This addition would