Final Exam: Commercial, Home, Personal Care Products

Question 1

How would you treat a coorosive/caustic intoxication?

Answer 1

Dilute with (1) water or (2) milk

Question 2

Which is more severe, acid or alkali corrosives?

Answer 2

Alkali

Question 3

Which is more common, acid or alkali corrosives?

Answer 3

Alkali

Question 4

What type of necrosis do acid corrosives/caustics cause?

Answer 4

Localized coagulative necrosis

Question 5

What type of necrosis do alkali corrosives/caustics cause?

Answer 5

Liquifactive necrosis

Question 6

Which more easily penetrates tissue, acid or alkali corrosives/caustics?

Answer 6

Alkali

Question 7

Which causes full thickness esophageal burns, mucosal sloughing, and scarring that results in strictures, acid or alkali corrosives/caustics?

Answer 7

Alkali

Question 8

Are solvents lipid soluble or liphophilic?

Answer 8

Lipid soluble

Question 9

Do solvents penetrate the skin easily or not?

Answer 9

Yes, penetrate intact skin

Question 10

What are 2 animals at high risk for solvent toxicity?

Answer 10

1. Dogs

2. Birds

Question 11

What are the systemic effects associated with solvents?

Answer 11

1. GI: vomiting
2. CNS: depression
3. Skin and eye irritant
4. Respiratory: aspiration pneumonia (coughing, dyspnea, pleuritis)
5. Cardiac arrest
6. Bone marrow suppression

Question 12

What is the chemical composition of Gorilla glue?

Answer 12

Polyurethane

Question 13

What is the chemical composition of superglue?

Answer 13

Cyanoacrylate

Question 14

What is the active ingredient in Gorilla glue?

Answer 14

Diphenylmethane diisocyanate

Question 15

What is Gorilla glue so dangerous?

Answer 15

Expandable

Question 16

How would you diagnose a polyurethane ingestion?

Answer 16

Radiography

Question 17

What is the appropriate therapy for a gorilla glue ingestion?

Answer 17

Gastrotomy to remove the large mass

Question 18

How would you handle superglue stuck to a patient’s hair?

Answer 18

1. Clip hair

2. Soak with acetone

Question 19

What would be the clinical pathology you would expect with play dough ingestion?

Answer 19

Hypernatremia

Question 20

What are the clinical signs associated with play dough ingestion?

Answer 20

1. Vomiting
2. Tremors
3. PU/PD
4. Seizures

Question 21

What do mothballs contain?

Answer 21

1. Naphthalene

2. Paradichlorobenzene

Question 22

How many mothballs would an animal have to ingest for it to be toxic?

Answer 22

1

Question 23

What would you see on clinical pathology following mothball ingestion?

Answer 23

1. Methemoglobinemia
2. Heinz body formation
3. Hemoglobinuria
4. Hypoxia

Question 24

How would one go about treating a mothball ingestion?

Answer 24

1. Emesis, charcoal, carthartics
2. Methylene blue
3. IV bicarbonate

Question 25

What does the IV bicarbonate do for mothball ingestion?

Answer 25

Decreases the precipitate of hemoglobin in the renal tubules

Question 26

What are the ingredients in paintballs?

Answer 26

1. Polyethylene glycol
2. Glycerin
3. Sorbitol
4. Sodium

Question 27

What would you see on clin path with paintball ingestion?

Answer 27

Hypernatremia

Question 28

What type of clinical signs are associated with nicotine pathch ingestion?

Answer 28

Signs mimicing acetylcholine release: salivation, vomiting, tachycardia, tremors, mydriasis, CNS depression, paresis, respiratory failure