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How should you treat subglottic edema? Correct Answer: Racemic epinephrine
An OB patient experiences uterine rupture during VBAC. What is the first sign?
Correct Answer: Severe abdominal pain, tachycardia, or fetal distress.
What nerves are effected with tic delareaux? Correct Answer: Tic douloreux
(trigeminal neuraglia) mostly affects trigeminal nerve V, and also CN IX
glossopharyngeal.
The a-wave is absent on CVP wave form. The patient is in what dysrhythmia?
Correct Answer: Atrial fibrillation.
A patient experiences shoulder pain during TURP. What is the likely cause?
Correct Answer: Bladder perforation.
What is the root of Belladonna? Correct Answer: Atropine
What percentage of cardiac output do the vascular rich group comprise?
Correct Answer: 70-75%
What determines potency of a local anesthetic? Correct Answer: Lipid solubility
What determines duration of action of a local anesthetic? Correct Answer:
Protein binding
What drug is a phencyclidine derivative? Correct Answer: (PCP) Ketamine
What primarily supplies blood to larynx? Correct Answer: Superior thyroid
(branches into superior laryngeal artery)
, What are the 3 unpaired cartilages? Correct Answer: Epiglottis, thyroid, cricoid
What are the 3 paired cartilages? Correct Answer: Arytenoid, corniculate,
cuneiform
What does the cricoid cartilage articulate with? Correct Answer: Thyroid
cartilage and arytenoids
What is the posterior attachment of vocal cords? Correct Answer: Posterior
arytenoids
What is the sole abductor of the vocal cords? Correct Answer: Posterior
cricoarytenoids are the only one that OPEN vocal cords
Damage to the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve will result in
what? Correct Answer: Inability to produce a high pitched "C" sound
WhiDamage to which nerve can result in unopposed adduction, preventing
ventilation and requiring an emergency airway? Correct Answer: Incomplete
bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve damage
The larynx lies at which vertebra? Correct Answer: C4-6
What are local anesthetics marketed as? Correct Answer: Water soluble
hydrochloride salts (acidic)
What nerve is injured in lithotomy position if hip is overflowed and abducted?
Correct Answer: Sciatic (and obturator)
What are relative contraindications to DLT? Correct Answer: Disruption of
tracheal bronchial tree or bronchopleural fistula, left mainstream carcinoid
tumor, bronchial constriction from a thoracic aortic aneurysm, pulmonary artery
compression from anterior mediastinal mass
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How should you treat subglottic edema? Correct Answer: Racemic epinephrine
An OB patient experiences uterine rupture during VBAC. What is the first sign?
Correct Answer: Severe abdominal pain, tachycardia, or fetal distress.
What nerves are effected with tic delareaux? Correct Answer: Tic douloreux
(trigeminal neuraglia) mostly affects trigeminal nerve V, and also CN IX
glossopharyngeal.
The a-wave is absent on CVP wave form. The patient is in what dysrhythmia?
Correct Answer: Atrial fibrillation.
A patient experiences shoulder pain during TURP. What is the likely cause?
Correct Answer: Bladder perforation.
What is the root of Belladonna? Correct Answer: Atropine
What percentage of cardiac output do the vascular rich group comprise?
Correct Answer: 70-75%
What determines potency of a local anesthetic? Correct Answer: Lipid solubility
What determines duration of action of a local anesthetic? Correct Answer:
Protein binding
What drug is a phencyclidine derivative? Correct Answer: (PCP) Ketamine
What primarily supplies blood to larynx? Correct Answer: Superior thyroid
(branches into superior laryngeal artery)
, What are the 3 unpaired cartilages? Correct Answer: Epiglottis, thyroid, cricoid
What are the 3 paired cartilages? Correct Answer: Arytenoid, corniculate,
cuneiform
What does the cricoid cartilage articulate with? Correct Answer: Thyroid
cartilage and arytenoids
What is the posterior attachment of vocal cords? Correct Answer: Posterior
arytenoids
What is the sole abductor of the vocal cords? Correct Answer: Posterior
cricoarytenoids are the only one that OPEN vocal cords
Damage to the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve will result in
what? Correct Answer: Inability to produce a high pitched "C" sound
WhiDamage to which nerve can result in unopposed adduction, preventing
ventilation and requiring an emergency airway? Correct Answer: Incomplete
bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve damage
The larynx lies at which vertebra? Correct Answer: C4-6
What are local anesthetics marketed as? Correct Answer: Water soluble
hydrochloride salts (acidic)
What nerve is injured in lithotomy position if hip is overflowed and abducted?
Correct Answer: Sciatic (and obturator)
What are relative contraindications to DLT? Correct Answer: Disruption of
tracheal bronchial tree or bronchopleural fistula, left mainstream carcinoid
tumor, bronchial constriction from a thoracic aortic aneurysm, pulmonary artery
compression from anterior mediastinal mass
