Pre-Op
Valid VCPR Requirements
What is an regular In-person PE and assumption of responsibility?
This item is not used to warm patient due to burn risk
What is electric/microwaveable heating pad?
Prescription Label Requirements
What are client details, patient details, prescriber details, drug name/strength/concentration/form/quantity/refills, directions, and caution statement?
Normal Anesthetic Vitals
HR: 70-180
RR: 8-20
BP: 90-160 mmHg
ETCO2: 30-45 mmHg
Time interval to check for patient temperature
What is every 15 minutes?
Surgical Attire
VA Circulator Responsibilities (Intra-Op)
Who opens sterile packs, operates non-sterile equipment, and anticipates team needs?
Schedule and class of sodium pentobarbital
What is Schedule II and Euthanasia Agent?
The function of Waste Gas Scavenging System
What is the system used to remove toxic/exhalant gases to F/Air Canister for neutralization?
Signs patient is in pain
Vocalizing, Panting, Restlessness, Agitation, Increased HR, Increased RR, Increased Temp, Increased BP
What are Providone Iodine and Chlorhexidine?
Sterile VA Duties
How do you pass instruments, swab, count sponges, remove soiled swabs, retract tissue, and cut sutures?
Define Cushing's Disease
hyperadrenocorticism - excessive production of cortisol
First item attached after moving patient to surgical suite
What is the anesthesia machine?
5 Rights of Administration
patient, amount, route, time, dose
Clipper blades used for coarse hair and fine trimming
What are #10 and #40?
Ways to assess respiratory activity
How to watch for chest rise/fall, ETT fogging, valve flutter, and listen with stethoscope?
What is propranalol (Inderal)?
Alt answers: atenolol and metoprolol
Four types of anesthesia
What are preemptive analgesia, local anesthesia, regional anesthesia, and general anesthesia?
Difference between side effect and adverse drug reaction
side effects are undesireable, but expected and monitored
adverse drug reactions are harmful and require immediate intervention
Contraindication for bladder expression
What is the abdominal trauma?
Function of ultrasonic cleaner
strip away contaminants with sound waves without damaging the objects
Function of cephalosporins
Disrupt bacterial cell wall synthesis, killing both many gram-positive and some gram-negative bacteria; more resistant to bacterial enzymes
Characteristics of Stage and Plane the patient is in for surgery
Stage 3, Plane 2
involuntary movement, limited reflexes, normal vitals, eye position rolled ventromedial
Common side effect in antiemetic but not emetic
What is dry mouth and tachycardia?