Chapter 9-1
This is formed during the first stage of blood clot formation
What is thromboplastin?
This group of drugs is given IV to dissolve existing blood clots
What are thrombolytics?
This product is used to treat glaucoma by producing miosis
What is Ocusert Pilo?
This separates the anterior and posterior cavities of the eye
What is the lens?
This is why testing the temperature of irrigation solution to ensure it is not too hot is important
What is it can cause tissue damage?
This type of medication is given to relieve a patient's preoperative anxiety
What are sedatives?
These are the medications used to inhibit mucous secretions of the respiratory system and digestive tract
What are anticholinergics?
This is NOT true of regional blocks
What is that they may be used for all types of surgical procedures?
This location on the patient is where the precordial stethoscope would be taped
What is the chest?
These are the five phases of general anesthesia, in sequence
What are preinduction, induction, maintenance, emergence, recovery?
This medication can reverse the effect of nondepolarizing muscle relaxants
What is prostigmin?
This is a severe and potentially lethal allergic reaction to a medication marked by hives, dyspnea, circulatory collapse and severe bronchospasm
What is anaphylaxis?
These are agents that dissolve already formed clots
What are thrombolytics?
This is formed during the second stage of blood clot formation
What is thrombin?
What is optic?
This fills the anterior cavity of the eye
What is aqueous humor?
This is NOT a reason for IV fluids to be ordered
What is to maintain acid-base balance?
This is a common antiemetic used preoperatively
What is Zofran?
This would be the physical status classification assigned to a surgical patient with cancer of the uterus who is undergoing a hysterectomy
What is P3?
This is an example of a case where an epidural block would NOT be used
What is providing anesthesia for suprapubic resection of a bladder tumor?
This is the primary use for caudal blocks
What is postoperative pain management?
The patient is most prone to agitation and excitement in this phase of anesthesia
What is induction?
This is NOT true regarding cricoid pressure
What is that it reduces the risk of laryngeal spasm?
This type of medication is given to treat a febrile nonhemolytic transfusion reaction to incompatible blood
What are antipyretics?
This procedure is performed to remove a blood clot
What is an arterial embolectomy?
This is the term for drugs that promote clot formation
What is coagulants?
Increased intraocular pressure is a characteristic of this
What is glaucoma?
Side effects of this group of ophthalmic drugs include blurred vision, abdominal cramps and diarrhea; and eye, eyebrow, and eyelid pain
What are miotics?
This is another name for donor blood
What is homologous?
This type of drug provides relief of pain without loss of consciousness
What are analgesics?
This is NOT a purpose of the preoperative assessment of the surgical patient when gathering information
What is to determine whether the procedure is necessary?
This is rendering an extremity bloodless using elevation and constriction
What is exsanguination?
This location will provide an accurate reading of a surgical patient's core temperature
What is the esophagus?
This drug is used for patients with hypovolemic trauma or short procedures on patients with compromised cardiac functions (or both)
What is amidate?
This is an example of a video laryngoscope
What is a McGrath?
This intervention is NOT one of the treatment steps for MH
What is slow ventilation?
This is a "net" that traps blood cells to form a clot
What is fibrin?
This is the duration of Coumadin
What is 2.5 to 5 days?
A blockage of this leads to chronic open-angle glaucoma
What is trabecular meshwork?
This is the mucous membrane layer that covers the inside of the eyelids, as well as the anterior surface of the globe of the eye
What is the conjunctiva?
Major electrolytes found in body fluids include sodium, chloride, calcium, and this
What is potassium?
This agent is an H2 blocker
What is ranitidine?
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has established criteria for classifying this aspect of the patient
What is physical status?
This is the term for injection of a local anesthetic into the nerve plexus that supplies the operative area
What is a regional block?
This piece of equipment is essential to perform an IVRA (Bier Block) for a carpal tunnel release
What is a tourniquet?
This is NOT an adverse effect associated with succinylcholine
What is decreased intracranial pressure?
This group of drugs is given to facilitate intubation, as well as provide better surgical exposure during abdominal procedures
What are muscle relaxants?
An imbalance of this electrolyte can often present as cardiac arrhythmias in surgical patients
What is potassium?
This is a blood clot within an intact blood vessel
What is a thrombus?
This hemostatic agent was developed to treat severe traumatic bleeding on the battlefield
What is QuikClot?
This is the clear, nonvascular fibrous tissue that covers the front of the eye to allow light into the eye
What is the cornea?
These drugs constrict the pupil by stimulating the iris muscle
What are miotics?
This is the volume of erythrocytes in a given volume of blood
What is hematocrit?
This group of preoperative sedatives is the most commonly used
What are benzodiazepines?
This drug may be given preoperatively to minimize the damage caused by aspiration of gastric contents during surgery
What is Bicitra?
This form of anesthesia would most likely be used for an 82-year-old patient scheduled for a colonoscopy
What is Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC)?
This type of regional block requires that the anesthetic agent is injected into the subarachnoid space
What is spinal?
These are small, involuntary muscles twitches just under the skin
By definition, ANESTHESIA means without this
What is sensation?
This condition is a late sign of MH
What is pyrexia?
A reason for anticoagulants to NOT be used
What is to dissolve blood clots causing a myocardial infarction?
This drug is used to reverse the effect of heparin
What is protamine sulfate?
This is the effect of osmotic diuretics in the treatment of glaucoma
What is to draw fluid out of the eye?
The vitreous humor of the eye does NOT do this
What is replenish itself?
These are the proteins responsible for transporting oxygen to cells
What are hemoglobin?
Stimuli, such as stretching the peritoneum or retracting the eye muscles, can produce this reaction
What is a decrease in heart rate?
This is the onset time of atropine in minutes
What is immediate?
An axillary approach for arm block would require the injection of local anesthetic agents at this nerve network
What is the brachial plexus?
This local anesthetic has the shortest duration
What is xylocaine?
Preoperative patient assessment and evaluation are performed during this phase of general anesthesia
This patient factor does NOT influence the selection of general anesthesia
What is length of hospital stay?
This medication would be used to manage laryngospasm with oxygen desaturation after extubation
What is succinylcholine?
IV administration of this is associated with anaphylactic reactions and should not be attempted unless no other venue is available
What is vitamin K?
What is silver nitrate?
This is the vascular layer of the globe of the eye
What is the choroid?
This is the area where the cornea and sclera meet
What is the limbus?
This IV fluid should NOT be given to a surgical patient who has liver disease
What is Lactated Ringer?
Atropine is an anticholinergic that causes this reaction
What is decreased mucous secretions?
This is why gum chewing is not allowed preoperatively for the patient who has been NPO
What is because it increases gastric fluid?
This disorder can be detected early using capnometry
What is malignant hyperthermia?
This type of regional block requires that the anesthetic agent is injected into the space that surrounds the dura mater via the sacral canal
What is caudal?
This is where the recovery phase of general anesthesia takes place
Where is PACU?
Which type of procedures would be facilitated by nasal intubation?
What is oral?
This medication is NOT likely to be the cause of frequent allergic reactions
What is epinephrine?
This hemostatic agent creates a mechanical barrier to control bleeding
What is Bone wax?
This form of anticoagulant is used for long-term management of DVT
What is oral?
This group of drugs interferes with the transmission of pain impulses to the brain
What are anesthetic agents?
This group of ophthalmic drugs dilates the pupil
What are mydriatics?
This is one of the most common IV solutions used in the surgical setting
What is 0.9% sodium chloride?
This condition would NOT be emphasized during a preoperative assessment
What is melanoma?
These medications are used to reduce nausea and the possibility of vomiting
What are antiemetics?
This local anesthetic has the longest duration
What is bupivacaine?
This surgical procedure would NOT be a proper use for spinal anesthesia
What is an intestinal resection?
This is NOT a requirement of laryngeal masked airway (LMA)
What is administering muscle relaxants?
This drug will reverse the effects of benzodiazepines
What is mazicon?
During an MH crisis, the surgical technologist would NOT perform this task
What is administering Dantrium?
This is formed during the third stage of blood clot formation
What is fibrin?
This type of instrument must be used to apply Avitene
What is dry?
This is why steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are used in ophthalmology
What is to suppress inflammatory response to trauma?
This is where aqueous humor is secreted
What are the ciliary processes?
This IV solution increases insulin requirements for a patient with diabetes
What is dextrose?
This category of preoperative medications has an effect on the vagus nerve
What are antocholinergics?
These type of medications are given to relieve pain and reduce the amount of anesthesia needed during surgery
What are analgesics?
This procedure would be a common application for an IVRA (Bier Block)
What is a carpal tunnel release?
This advanced monitoring technique is used to assess cardiac function during open heart surgery
What is TEE
This is NOT a side effect of propofol
What is the patient experiencing hallucinations during the emergence phase of anesthesia?
This drug is best used for superficial procedures of short duration, such as skin grafts
What is ketalar?
This is the individual who can place the internal defibrillator paddles in direct contact with the heart during cardiac arrest
Who is the surgeon?
This naturally occurring mechanism is the most dominant in blood
What are anticoagulants?
This is the most often used parenteral anticoagulant
What is heparin sodium?
This focuses the image onto the retina
What is the lens?
This person will periodically moisten the eye during most ophthalmic procedures
Who is the scrubbed surgical technologist?
This is another name for Hartmann solution
What is Lactated Ringer solution?
This is the most common benzodiazepine administered preoperatively
What is versed?
This is an orally administered preoperative antacid
What is sodium citrate?
This is NOT true of axillary blocks
What is that the arm must first be exsanguinated?
This type of regional block requires that the anesthetic agent is injected between the vertebral bodies and through the dura mater
What is spinal?
This is NOT a primary objective of general anesthesia
This age group is NEVER a candidate for regional or local anesthetic
What are pediatric?
This is the most common cause of mechanical bronchospasm
What is irritation due to intubation?