Study Guide Qs

Question 1

What is not a function of anesthesia?

Answer 1

Enhance sensation

Question 2

What is ASA score?

Answer 2

Assessment of the current health status of patient and subsequent risk of anesthesia

Question 3

How to handle an emergency patient before anesthetizing?

Answer 3

Stabilize the best you can, but some abnormalities cannot be corrected prior to anesthesia

Question 4

Out of circle components

Answer 4

Oxygen tank
Flush Valve
Ventilator
Vaporizer

Question 5

Flush valve provides what pressure of oxygen?

Answer 5

Doc says intermediate, notes say high

Question 6

How to calculate volume of oxygen left in a tank?

Answer 6

Pressure x 0.3

Question 7

How to calculate volume of NO2 tank?

Answer 7

When pressure starts to drop from 745psi, about 400L (25% original) left

Question 8

How is CO2 eliminated in a non-rebreathing system?

Answer 8

High oxygen flow

Question 9

What is the purpose of unidirectional valves?

Answer 9

Prevent breathing air from expiratory limb and prevent re breathing of CO2

Question 10

What can you tell about a soda lime canister if it is purple?

Answer 10

Absorbent is exhausted

Question 11

When performing a leak test on an anesthesia machine…

Answer 11

Don’t take your thumb out of the tube

Question 12

What is wind up pain?

Answer 12

Any stimulus can elicit an exaggerated pain response

Question 13

What is nociception?

Answer 13

Process of detection of a potentially or actually damaging stimulus/transmission to brain
Animal does not need to be conscious

Question 14

What drugs is contraindicated in DCM dog with GDV?

Answer 14

Acepromazine

Question 15

What drugs is water soluble and can be given IM?

Answer 15

Midazolam

Question 16

What drugs can cause hypertension followed by hypotension, bradycardia, hyperglycemia, and low urine SG?

Answer 16

Alpha 2 agonists

Question 17

What explains why an animal would wake up after a single bolus of anesthetic drug?

Answer 17

Redistribution to tissues

Question 18

What is a characteristic of recovery from propofol CRI?

Answer 18

It is metabolized, not redistributed

Question 19

What drugs have no effect on heart contractility but may cause bradycardia and respiratory depression?

Answer 19

Opioids

Question 20

MAC is similar to

Answer 20

ED50

Question 21

Maintenance rate of an inhalant is usually what?

Answer 21

1.5 - 2 x MAC

Question 22

A high blood-gas partition coefficient is associated with

Answer 22

Greater uptake by tissues and a lower FA/FI ratio

Question 23

Potency is an expression of the relationship between

Answer 23

Dose of inhalant and anesthetic effect obtained

Question 24

In a bulldog with upper airway obstruction, what monitor changes would you see?

Answer 24

Drop in FiO2 (SPO2?) causing hypoxia

Question 25

How should you recovery ruminants?

Answer 25

Head elevated | Not in lateral recumbency

Question 26

A chihuahua is cyanotic but still intubated. What would not be a differential?

Answer 26

Nasal edema

Question 27

What is not true of pain control?

Answer 27

Forgoing analgesia because the patient is discharged in an hour

Question 28

What is not a side effect of pain?

Answer 28

Increased appetite

Question 29

What characterizes a medium plane of anesthesia?

Answer 29

No spontaneous movement, moderate muscle tone, no palpebral, ventromedial roation of eye

Question 30

Blood pressure cuff should be what size?

Answer 30

40% of circumference of limb

Question 31

Pulse ox detects two types of what

Answer 31

Hemoglobin

Question 32

What is the phas 3 of capnograph?

Answer 32

Expiratory plateau

Question 33

What local anesthetic is less toxic than bupivicaine

Answer 33

Lidocaine

Question 34

What affects the onset of local aesthetics?

Answer 34

Dose pka, pH of tissue

Question 35

Local anesthetic is not working in a wound. Why?

Answer 35

Acidic pH

Question 36

Local anesthetic toxicity can be caused by

Answer 36

High plasma concentration and systemic effects

Question 37

What fluid increase mortality, coagulopathy, and acute kidney injury?

Answer 37

Colloids

Question 38

A patient is hyponatremic, what fluid should you give?

Answer 38

0.9% Sodium chloride

Question 39

Why is vasocontriction favorable in a cat with HCM

Answer 39

Prevent LVOT

Question 40

What drug would you use for induction in a patient with liver diease?

Answer 40

Propofol

Question 41

What drug should you avoid in patient with brain disease?

Answer 41

Ketamine

Question 42

What drug protocols would you use in a septic patient?

Answer 42

Use reversible anesthetic Decrease dose Local anesthetic to decrease inhalant required