NOVA- Anesthesia Clinical Anesthesia
Exam 1 (New 2026/ 2027 Update)
Questions & Answers {Grade A} 100%
Correct (Verified Solutions)
What is premed for? - - Correct answer Relieve anxiety and pain
-prophylactic antibiotics
Patients are considered to be healthy and normal - - Correct answer ASA I
Patients have mild to moderate systemic disease - - Correct answer ASA II
Patients have severe systemic disease that limits activity, but is not incapacitating - -
Correct answer ASA III
Patients have severe systemic disease that limits activity and is a constant threat to
life - - Correct answer ASA IV
,Patients are moribund and are not expected to survive more than 24 hours with or
without the operation - - Correct answer ASA V
Clinically brain dead patients being maintained for harvesting of organs - - Correct
answer ASA VI
Emergency operation of any variety
-for example, not NPO - - Correct answer ASA E
Example:
-healthy, non smoker, no or minimal drinking - - Correct answer ASA I
Example:
-smoker, little more than minimal drinking pregnancy, obesity, well controlled DM,
HTN, or mild lung disease - - Correct answer ASA II
Example:
, -DM, poorly controlled HTN, distant hx of MI, CVA, TIA, cardiac stent, COPD, ESRD,
dialysis, active hepatitis, pacemaker, EF <40% - - Correct answer ASA III
Example:
-recent MI, CVA, TIA, cardiac stent, ongoing cardiac ischemia, severe valve dysfunction,
implanted ICD, EF <25%
-stroke - - Correct answer ASA IV
Example:
-Ruptured abdominal or thoracic aneurysm, intracranial bleed, ischemic bowel in the
face of significant cardiac pathology - - Correct answer ASA V
-given pre-op to relieve anxiety
-provides antegrade amnesia - - Correct answer Benzodiazepines (Midazolam)
-given pre-op to relieve pain - - Correct answer Opioids (Fentanyl, Morphine, Dilaudid)
-give pre-op to decreased PONV
Exam 1 (New 2026/ 2027 Update)
Questions & Answers {Grade A} 100%
Correct (Verified Solutions)
What is premed for? - - Correct answer Relieve anxiety and pain
-prophylactic antibiotics
Patients are considered to be healthy and normal - - Correct answer ASA I
Patients have mild to moderate systemic disease - - Correct answer ASA II
Patients have severe systemic disease that limits activity, but is not incapacitating - -
Correct answer ASA III
Patients have severe systemic disease that limits activity and is a constant threat to
life - - Correct answer ASA IV
,Patients are moribund and are not expected to survive more than 24 hours with or
without the operation - - Correct answer ASA V
Clinically brain dead patients being maintained for harvesting of organs - - Correct
answer ASA VI
Emergency operation of any variety
-for example, not NPO - - Correct answer ASA E
Example:
-healthy, non smoker, no or minimal drinking - - Correct answer ASA I
Example:
-smoker, little more than minimal drinking pregnancy, obesity, well controlled DM,
HTN, or mild lung disease - - Correct answer ASA II
Example:
, -DM, poorly controlled HTN, distant hx of MI, CVA, TIA, cardiac stent, COPD, ESRD,
dialysis, active hepatitis, pacemaker, EF <40% - - Correct answer ASA III
Example:
-recent MI, CVA, TIA, cardiac stent, ongoing cardiac ischemia, severe valve dysfunction,
implanted ICD, EF <25%
-stroke - - Correct answer ASA IV
Example:
-Ruptured abdominal or thoracic aneurysm, intracranial bleed, ischemic bowel in the
face of significant cardiac pathology - - Correct answer ASA V
-given pre-op to relieve anxiety
-provides antegrade amnesia - - Correct answer Benzodiazepines (Midazolam)
-given pre-op to relieve pain - - Correct answer Opioids (Fentanyl, Morphine, Dilaudid)
-give pre-op to decreased PONV
