ACTUAL EXAM COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
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What can be used as a local anesthetic for patients allergic to multiple
types of local? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Benadryl
Plastic tube at each end in which a small air inflated balloon sits tightly
over top of the larynx- can be placed blindly but does NOT protect
airway from aspiration - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Laryngeal Mask
Airway (LMA)
Rapid administration of anesthetic doses of __________ can result in
hiccups, tachycardia and respiratory depression - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > Methohexital (Brevital)
Why is Methohexital (Brevital) considered to be ultrashort acting
compared to Thiopental? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Not highly bound
to fat
,LMA's apex of mask has an open end that is pointing _________ toward
the ______ - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Downward toward the uvula
Steroid based muscle relaxant that has an advantage of NOT triggering
malignant hypothermia - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Rocuronium
What drug can trigger Malignant Hypothermia? - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > Succinylcholine
Inserted orally or nasally- protects against aspiration, but requires Succs
or Rocuronium to be given first - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > ETT
If a tube is passed into the right mainstem bronchus - you can hear the
_____ side but nothing on the _____ side - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Right then left
If ETT is placed in the _______- gurgling sounds with distention of
abdomen is seen and heard - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Esosphagus
Primarily used as a narcotic antagonist - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Naloxone (Narcan)
Local anesthetics containing epinephrine should be used cautiously in
patients who have? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Cardiac dysrhythmias
,What is the ideal placement for a pretracheal stethoscope? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Supersternal notch
Monitoring device that gives information about both circulation and
ventilation - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Pulse oximeter
Patient who swallows during anesthesia is experiencing? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Light anesthesia
Gurgling, snoring, high-pitched crowing or wheezing noted while
listening to a precordial stethoscope indicates when a patient has? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Partial respiratory obstruction
_______ can be monitored continuously by auscultation in the
precordial or pretracheal region and observation of the rebreathing abg
- ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Ventilation
Rocking or "see-sawing" rhythm of the chest and abdomen may
indicate? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Airway obstruction
Increased heart rate may be caused by? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Painful stimuli
, Hypoxia is seen more rapidly in _________ - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Children
Most often due to posterior positioning of the tongue in the
oropharynx - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Complete/partial airway
obstruction
If tongue continues to fall back causing airway obstruction, what type
of intubation is best? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > NG tube or oral
airway
What are the 2 types of intubation that are considered second choice
during airway obstruction caused by the tongue - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > LMA or ETT
Surgical airway below level of larynx into trachea - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > Tracheostomy
When the patient is in the supine position and their airway is
obstructed by a foreign body, what is your 2nd step if there is no
airflow during ventilation? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Chest
compressions
What emergency drug is given if a patient is having a laryngospasm? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Succinylcholine