Airway
Pharmacology
Neurophysiology and Pain
Emergencies
Pioneering Women
100
What can cricoid pressure do to the airway view
What is worsen the view?
100
Which local anesthetic has the highest cardiotoxicity at high plasma concentrations?
What is bupivacaine
100
Which nerve blocks target the femoral, obturator, and lateral femoral cutaneous nerves?
Lumbar plexus block (psoas compartment block)
100
What electrolyte abnormality is seen in malignant hyperthermia
What is hyperkalemia?
100
Who developed the APGAR score
Who is Virginia Apgar?
200
What is the anatomic landmark for a Cricothyrotomy
What is the Cricothyroid Membrane
200
Why is epinephrine added to local anesthetics?
What is prolonged anesthetic effect?
200
What is allodynia?
What is pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain?
200
What is the most common first line treatment for anaphylaxis
What is epinephrine?
200
She founded the first program for nurse anesthetists
Who is Alice Magaw?
300
What intubation pathway is contraindicated in a patient with a facial fracture and suspected basilar skull fracture?
What is nasopharyngeal intubation
300
In epidural anesthesia, which local anesthetic with one of the fastest onset is most widely used?
What is chloroprocaine
300
What is the landmark for a spinal for a c-section?
what is L3-L4 or L4-L5?
300
What is the most common early sign of malignant hyperthermia?
What is hypercapnia?
300
First African American anesthesiologist, helped advance pediatric anesthesia at Johns Hopkins
Who is Dr. Helen Octavia Dickens?
400
What part of the basilar anatomy can be damaged if a nasopharyngeal intubation is attempted in a patient with a facial fracture?
What is the cribiform plate
400
What new medication is used to reverse paralysis from rocuronium?
What is Sugammadex?
400
What is a complication of an epidural presenting with back pain, motor weakness or bladder/bowel dysfunction?
What is an epidural hematoma?
400
What is the most common cause of hypotension after spinal anesthesia?
What is sympathetic blockade?
400
First woman to become president of the ASA in 1991
Who is Dr. Betty Stephenson?
500
In a patient with rheumatoid arthritis, why are neck films ordered prior to intubation
What is atlantoaxial subluxation
500
What type of anesthesia results from ketamine administration?
What is Dissociative anesthesia?
500
Which nerve block targets the brachial plexus and is used for shoulder and upper arm surgery, and has a risk of phrenic nerve involvement?
What is the interscalene block?
500
What are two triggering agents for Malignant hyperthermia?
What are succinylcholine and volatile anesthetics?
500
Woman physician helped pioneer the use of Spinal Anesthesia in obstetrics in the United States
Who is Dr. Isabella Herb?
