Regional
Anesthesia
Anesthesia
What nerve is most likely to be injured by a fracture of the shaft of the humerus?
What is the radial nerve?
True or False:
The alveolar concentrations of anesthetics increase more rapidly in children than in adults because of a smaller ratio of alveolar ventilation to functional residual capacity.
FALSE
The alveolar concentrations of anesthetics increase more rapidly in children than in adults because of a greater ratio of alveolar ventilation to functional residual capacity.
Uterotonic agent associated with an increase in blood pressure?
What is Methylergometrine?
What is the mechanism of action of Heparin?
What is inactivates thrombin by binding to Anti-thrombin III?
What blood vessel is affected by an inferior MI? and what EKG lead(s) would reflect those changes?
What is the right coronary artery (RCA)? and what are leads II, III, AVF?
Mechanism of local anesthetic blockade during IV regional anesthesia?
What is local anesthetic spread through the vascular bed to produce blockade of the distal peripheral nerves?
The principal rationale for the use of warmed humidified inspired anesthetic gases in children is to?
What is to prevent evaporative heat loss?
Which hormone is responsible for the increased incidence of GERD in pregnant patients?
What is progesterone?
Which of the following increases during infusion of epinephrine?
Which of the following increases during infusion of epinephrine?
Physiologically, coronary blood flow relates most directly to?
What is myocardial oxygen consumption?
At what vertebral level should local anesthetic be deposited for a stellate ganglion block?
What is C6?
What is the primary physiologic response in a neonate exposed to a hypothermic environment?
What is metabolism of brown fat?
What stage of labor do labor epidurals prolong?
In patients with renal failure, which muscle relaxant has the most prolonged elimination half-life?
What is pancuronium?
In the majority of people, what vessel supplies the heart's conduction system?
What is the right coronary artery?
Recommended time to stop Clopidogrel (Plavix) before neuraxial catheter placement
What is 5-7 days?
How does subarachnoid anesthesia differ in infants when compared to adults?
What is faster block onset?
Is smoking a risk factor or protective against developing pre-eclampsia?
Smoking actually decreases the risk of developing pre-eclampsia by 30% to 40%.
Which of the following drugs is LEAST likely to cross the placenta?
Which of the following drugs is LEAST likely to cross the placenta?
Heparin, Protamine, Insulin, Succinylcholine, Non-depolarizing NMBDs, and Glycopyrrolate are common medications that DO NOT cross the placenta
During total cardiopulmonary bypass, metabolic acidosis and decreasing mixed venous oxygen saturation are noted. The most likely cause is:
What is hypoperfusion?
A 30-year-old woman has difficulty talking 15 minutes after initiation of interscalene block for closed reduction of a dislocated shoulder. The most likely cause is?
What is blockade of the recurrent laryngeal nerve?
The portion of the infant airway with the smallest cross-sectional area occurs at the level of the?
What is the cricoid cartilage?
What is the most common cause of acute respiratory failure in pregnant patients?
What is Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)?
A patient has severe pain after total knee arthroplasty. Systemic opioids are most likely to modify the pain through action at which of the following sites? (Think brain)
What is the substantia gelatinosa?
Following protamine administration, profound pulmonary hypertension is most likely initiated by release of?
What is thromboxane?