DAANCE Study Guide Questions with Verified
Correct Answers
Nose/nasal passages, sinuses, pharynx
What consists of the upper airway?
Larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, pulmonary alveoli
What consists of the lower airway?
Immediate hypersensitivity response that involves antigen-antibody reactions (IgE)
What is the most severe type of allergic reaction?
Liver
What is the largest gland in the body?
Pediatric patients
What age group of patients will hypoxia occur much more rapidly in? Bradycardia is a sign
relating to hypoxia
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
What does HIPAA stand for?
Ischemia
A decrease in blood flow in the coronary arteries? Can temporarily or permanently damage
the heart muscle by decreasing O2 available to the muscle cells?
1 year- Plavix & Aspirin
If a cardiac patient just had stent placement, how long are they required to be on antiplatelet
drugs? What are the 2 drugs they usually do together?
, Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis (SBE) aka infectious endocarditis
Type of infection that can further damage heart valves or cause systemic infections? Requires
antibiotic prophylaxis
P wave
Atrial depolarization (contraction)
QRS complex
Ventricular depolarization
T wave
Ventricular repolarization (relaxation)
Cushing's disease
Type of disease due to excessive secretion of corticosteroid due to a presence of a tumor or
from administration of high doses of corticosteriod drugs (ex: Prednisone)
Myxedema
Chronic long-term hypothyroidism, most commonly seen in older adults (elderly women)
who have had a stroke or stopped taking their thyroid medication
Thyroid crisis
Most severe complication of hyperthyroidism from an OMS perspective
Hyperthyroidism
Untreated __________ are at an increased risk for outpatient anesthesia and tend to be
sensitive to epinephrine in a local anesthetic
Diabetes Type 1
Correct Answers
Nose/nasal passages, sinuses, pharynx
What consists of the upper airway?
Larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, pulmonary alveoli
What consists of the lower airway?
Immediate hypersensitivity response that involves antigen-antibody reactions (IgE)
What is the most severe type of allergic reaction?
Liver
What is the largest gland in the body?
Pediatric patients
What age group of patients will hypoxia occur much more rapidly in? Bradycardia is a sign
relating to hypoxia
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
What does HIPAA stand for?
Ischemia
A decrease in blood flow in the coronary arteries? Can temporarily or permanently damage
the heart muscle by decreasing O2 available to the muscle cells?
1 year- Plavix & Aspirin
If a cardiac patient just had stent placement, how long are they required to be on antiplatelet
drugs? What are the 2 drugs they usually do together?
, Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis (SBE) aka infectious endocarditis
Type of infection that can further damage heart valves or cause systemic infections? Requires
antibiotic prophylaxis
P wave
Atrial depolarization (contraction)
QRS complex
Ventricular depolarization
T wave
Ventricular repolarization (relaxation)
Cushing's disease
Type of disease due to excessive secretion of corticosteroid due to a presence of a tumor or
from administration of high doses of corticosteriod drugs (ex: Prednisone)
Myxedema
Chronic long-term hypothyroidism, most commonly seen in older adults (elderly women)
who have had a stroke or stopped taking their thyroid medication
Thyroid crisis
Most severe complication of hyperthyroidism from an OMS perspective
Hyperthyroidism
Untreated __________ are at an increased risk for outpatient anesthesia and tend to be
sensitive to epinephrine in a local anesthetic
Diabetes Type 1
