Anesthetic Drugs
The most common anesthetic gas found in the Veterinary field
What is Isoflurane?
This instrument is used mandatory in OVH packs.
What is a Snook Hook or Spay Hook?
A surgical procedure preformed on females to remove the uterus and ovaries
What is an Ovariohysterectomy? (OVH)
The main jobs of the Veterinary Assistant in surgery.
What are patient restraint and monitoring?
The method of gloving for a major procedure, where the cuff of your sleeve remains inside the glove.
What is Closed Gloving?
The term for administrating a drug slowly
The most common method of sterilization in Vet Med.
What is heat and steam under pressure?
Name a surgery that can be preformed as a non-sterile procedure.
What is a feline neuter or feline abscess clip/clean?
What you look for to remove the ET Tube in a dog and cat.
What is the Swallow Reflex (dog) and Ear twitching with Rapid Palpebral (cat)?
The 3 items that should be put on before surgical scrubbing starts.
What are Cap, mask, shoe covers (booties)?
This drug is classified as a Benzodiazepine.
What is Midazolam?
This anesthetic equipment adjusts the flow rate of oxygen (or anesthetic gas) sent to the patient
What is a Flowmeter?
This term requires a C-section of the affected patient
What is a Dystocia?
Patients will be placed in this recumbency for a Lapraotomy
What is Dorsal Recumbency?
How you should open sterile packages.
What is Away from the body?
Torbugesic is the brand name for this drug.
What is Butorphanol?
This anesthetic equipment removes/absorbs exhaled CO2 from a rebreathing circuit
What is a Soda Lime Canister?
This procedure requires you to always express the patient's bladder during prep time.
What is a Canine OVH?
The anatomical boundaries for prepping a patient for a lapraotomy.
What are the Xiphoid and the Pubis?
This drug can cause post-induction apnea.
What is Propofol?
This instrument is a hand-held retractor
What is an Army-Navy?
A (rightfully) controversial procedure done exclusively on cats.
The anesthetic parameter that is classified as dangerously low for a cat.
What is a heart rate of 60bpm or less?
Name at least two things you MAY NOT touch when you have sterile gloves on.
What is the front door, table, monitoring equipment, outside of the prepped area of the patient?