The use of these drugs is known to be a risk factor for awareness under anesthesia.
What are "neuromuscular blocking drugs"?
100
This stage of general anesthesia is characterized by loss of lash relfex, but maintenance of cough and other reflexes. Respiration may be irregular, with breath-holding.
What is "stage 2"?
100
This is what a Mallampati 2 airway allows you to predict regarding ease of intubation.
What is "nothing".
100
This is the general term for the type of anesthetic typically delivered to the first cousin of of someone who died of a fever during surgery in Colombia.
What is "clean technique"?
100
I am a good adjunct airway, either for rescuing a difficult mask ventilation/ intubation, or as a conduit for intubation.
What is an LMA?
200
These 3 catagories of surgical patients are at known increased risk for awareness under anesthesia.
What are "Cardiac, Emergency C-Section and Trauma"?
200
This stage of general anesthesia is generally referred to as "surgical anesthesia" and is divided into 4 "planes".
What is "Stage 3"
200
The "Rule of threes", describes what characteristics about the airway in relation to predicting difficulty with intubation?
What is "3cm thyro-mental distance, 3cm mouth opening, and 3cm thyro-hyoid distance"?
200
This form of anesthesia is best for spine cases in which MEP's and SSEP's are being monitored.
What is "TIVA"?
200
I am the "branch point" in the difficult airway algorithm which determines awake vs asleep intubation.
What is "suspected difficult mask ventilation"
300
A patient who is able to accurately identify a word, phrase or general topic of conversation (ie: "Something about snowmobiles...") from the Operating room has experienced what?
What is "Recall, or Memorization"?
300
This stage/ plane of anesthesia is charcterized by increased tearing, indicating "light" anesthesia.
What is "Stage 3/ plane 2"?
300
This is the single most reliable predictor of a difficult intubation.
What is "History of difficult intubation"?
300
In a combined TIVA/ Inhalational anesthetic, intended to decrease the risk of PONV, the dose of Propofol should contribute approximately this proportion of "MAC".
What is "50%"?
300
This term describes a situation in which tracheal intubation requires multiple attempts, in the presence or absence of tracheal pathology.
What is "Difficult Intubation"?
400
This subcatagory, or classification of memory would include things such as "I remember someone talking about their lime-green Mini Cooper with a fox tail on the antenna".
What is "explicit memory"?
400
This stage of general anesthesia begins with loss of conciousness.
What is "Stage 2"?
400
The acronym "OBESE" stands for these predictors of a difficult mask ventilation.
What is "Obesity, beard, elderly, snoring, edentulous"?
400
An anterior mediastinal mass would prompt some anesthesiologists to perform this type of induction.
What is "inhalation"?
400
According to the ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm, I am the first course of action when it is recognized that a patient has become a difficult mask ventilation.
What is "consider/ attempt LMA placement"?
500
This is the generally accepted upper end of range of incidence of awareness under anesthesia.
What is "0.2%"?
500
This plane of Stage 3 is the first time when laryngeal reflexes will not be reliably initiated with painful stimuli.
What is "plane 4"?
500
This is the average range of motion at the Atlanto-axial joint of a normal patient.
What is "130 degrees"?
500
In an inhalation induction, this heart abnormality will slow the onset of general anesthesia.
What is "right-to-left shunt"?
500
In the event that both mask ventilation and LMA ventilation become difficult, I am the first course of action, according to the ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm.