Patient Monitoring

Question 1

What is the technicians responsibility for patient monitoring during anesthesia?

Answer 1

1. Endurance of boredom and terror during monitoring
2. Achieving balance between death and safety

Question 2

Four types of heat exchange

Answer 2

1. Conduction (contact)
2. Convection (Air currents)
3. Radiation (Molecular activity)
4. Evaporation (Fluid to vapor)

Question 3

Body temperature is balanced between heat loss and production. Where is heat lost in the body

Answer 3

Skin and lungs

Question 4

Body temperature is balanced between heat loss and production. Where is heat produced in the body

Answer 4

Skeletal muscle contraction and the liver

Question 5

Why do animals get cold during anesthesia?

Answer 5

The thermoregulatory center in the brain is turned off (hypothalamus)

Question 6

Name three factors that can cause temperature alterations

Answer 6

1. Environment
2. Disease
3. Interventions

Question 7

Four possible results of extreme temperature variations

Answer 7

1. DIC
2. Organ failure
3. Acid base disturbances
4. Cardiac arrythmia

Question 8

A thermometer is the gold standard of temperature methods. What type of thermometer is necessary in vet med

Answer 8

Low limit

Question 9

To get a true core temp during an abdominal procedure, what thermistor probe route should be used

Answer 9

Esophageal

Question 10

When using an aural thermometer (infrared) what two things should you keep in mind

Answer 10

1. Correlate with a conversion factor
2. Otitis may cause higher readings