Definitions
This is the entire or partial loss of feeling or sensation
What is anesthesia?
These drugs are used as pre-anesthetic and post-operative recovery to keep patients calm and relaxed.
What are tranquilizers and sedatives?
This is the part of the anesthesia machine that holds the liquid inhalant anesthetic and delivers a precise concentration of that liquid with oxygen to the patient.
What is the vaporizer?
These involuntary responses to stimuli help to give a general indicator of anesthetic depth.
Used to monitor heart rate and rhythm, this machine provides a graphical representation of the electrical activity of the heart.
What is the ECG?
Drugs that reduce pain.
What are analgesics?
Narcotic drugs.
What are opioids?
This is the part of the anesthesia machine that adjusts the rate of oxygen delivery.
What is the flow meter?
These vital signs will increase in light phases of anesthesia, and decrease as the anesthetic depth increases.
What are the heart and respiration rates?
This machine will pick up the sound of blood flowing through an artery and measures arterial pressure.
What is the blood pressure monitor?
The insensibility to pain
What is analgesia?
Drugs used to dry body secretions, such as mucus, or to increase the heart rate during surgery.
What are anticholinergic agents?
Used to fill the CO2 absorber, the granules will turn bluish-purple when they need to be changed.
What is soda lime?
While under general anesthesia, the patient's blink response is returning. What does this tell you about the depth of anesthesia?
The anesthesia is too light.
These are the two locations to apply the pulse oximeter probe
Pinna, tongue
The patient is unconscious, has no reflexes.
What is general anesthesia?
The most commonly used inhalant anesthetic in small animal veterinary medicine.
What is isoflurane?
This is the correct anesthesia circuit for a patient weighing over 7kg, and involves the recirculation of exhaled gases to the patient.
What is a rebreathing system?
This reflex can be tested by touching the inner corner of the eyelid with a soft, blunt object.
What is the blink response / palpebral reflex?
This machine measures the oxygen saturation of arterial blood.
What is the pulse oximeter?
Anesthesia limited to a specific area of the body, such as for a lump removal.
What is local anesthesia?
Drugs that work by suppressing the function of specific parts of the brain associated with pain.
What are dissociative drugs?
This is the correct anesthesia circuit for a patient weighing under 7kg.
What is a non-rebreathing system?
As anesthesia deepens, eye position will change from central to this position.
What is ventromedial.
This monitor emits an alarm when a patient has not taken a breath in a predetermined period of time.
What is an apnea monitor?