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Gas Passer
100
From the Latin for sulpher, many barbiturates contain this active moiety.
What is thiol?
100
In term newborns, the conus medullaris ends at this spinal level.
What is L3?
100
This syndrome led to banning the use of spinal microcatheters.
What is cauda equina syndrome?
100
This local anesthetic inhibits the activity of normal plasma cholinesterase by 80%.
What is dibucaine?
100
This MAC level produces a 50-70% depression in ventilatory response to hypoxia.
What is 0.1 MAC?
200
A hypnotic treatment for blood pressure or nausea, this 'ol has been slowly recovery from its black box warning several years ago.
What is droperidol?
200
Between omphalocele and gastroschisis, this condition is associated with a higher incidence of cardiac anomolies.
What is omphalocele?
200
The EKG feature that most reliably shows evidence of an intravascular injection of local anesthetic.
What is t-wave?
200
Laudonasine, a CNS stimulant, is a metabolite of this drug.
What is atracurium?
200
This inhaled agent increases the rate of production and the resistance to reabsorption of CSF.
What is Enflurane?
300
Sometimes administered to ICU sundowners, this hypnotic drug is a treatment for acute psychosis.
What is haldol/haloperidol?
300
These two lab abnormalities might be seen in a patient with Von Willebrand's Disease.
What are: elevated bleeding time, prolonged PTT, reduced factor VIII:C activity?
300
This spinal needle has a rounded pencil point tip and a side-injection orifice.
What is a Whittacre needle?
300
Non-depaolarizing muscle relaxants are divided into these two chemical classifications.
What are benzylisoquinoliniums and aminosteroids?
300
This inhaled agent, with its modest vapor pressure of 160 mmHg @ 20 degrees Celsius permits the use of a conventional variable bypass vaporizer.
What is Sevoflurane?
400
This beta-agonist relaxes smooth muscles.
What is albuterol?
400
The four anatomic features of Tetralogy of Fallot.
What are: VSD, RV outflow obstruction, RVH and overriding aorta?
400
pain signals travel from the periphery to the spinal cord via these types of nerve fibers.
What are A delta and C fibers?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!! The postjunctional nicotinic cholinergic receptor has these 5 subunits.
What are alpha (2 of them), beta, gamma, delta?
400
The MAC of Xenon in humans.
What is 71%?
500
This agent prevents spontaneous oxidative decomposition of halothane.
What is thymol?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Regarding fetal circulation, this structure in the RA diverts well-oxygenated blood from RA through foramen ovale into LA and diverts poorly oxygenated blood from the SVC to the RV.
What is the crista dividends?
500
C7 nerve root lies between these two vertebral bodies.
What are C6 and C7?
500
The presence of this ophthalmic medication can prolong the action of succinylcholine.
What is echothiophate?
500
This hypothesis explains the mechanism of action of inhaled agents, stating that inhaled agents bind to hydrophobic sites in the phospholipid bilayer beyond a critical amount, thus altering membrane function.
What is the critical volume hypothesis?