Zuku Review Question of the Day
1/24/17 Which drug causes vomiting in cats? - ✔️✔️Xylazine is used as an EMETIC in
CATS, causes vomiting.
Three things to remember about xylazine:
1. Cattle are EXTREMELY SENSITIVE to xylazine. Cow dose is about 20 times LESS
than dogs or horses.
2. Reversed with yohimbine, atipamezole, or tolazoline.
3. Pretreatment with Atropine can decrease bradycardia, hypersalivation seen with
xylazine in cattle.
Two ANTI-emetics in cats are diphenhydramine (Benadryl®), and metoclopramide.
1/25/17 You must treat a 1000 lb cow infected with Eimeria bovis (an intestinal parasite)
using 9.6% amprolium oral solution. The dose is 10mg/kg PO SID for 5 days.
How much amprolium do you give this cow, and how often each day? - ✔️✔️47 ml,
once a day. A cc is cubic centimeter, which is the same volume as a milliliter, (ml). SID
means once a day.
9.6% concentration contains 96 mg amprolium per ml solution. 1000 lb cow = 454 kg,
(1000lb / 2.2lb/kg=454 kg).
The dose for this cow will be 454 kg x10 mg/kg =4540 mg. To get the dose in ml divide
4540 mg by 96 mg/ml
4540 mg / 96mg/ml =47ml
Eimeria (and isospora) are intestinal protozoal parasites (also called coccidia).
1/26/17
Which choice indicates that the soda lime granules in a CO2 absorbent canister have
become exhausted?
A - Color stays pink, regardless of CO2 exposure
B - Crystals become hard and turn off-white
C - Color change from purple to pink, crystals become powder
D - Color changes to brown and liquid accumulates at the base of the canister - ✔️✔️B.
Crystals become hard and turn off-white
The purpose of a canister of soda lime granules is to absorb carbon dioxide from
exhaled anesthetic gasses.
Fresh absorbent crystals are white and can be crushed. But exhausted, saturated
crystals become a distinct off-white color and are hard.
,Most granules contain a pH-sensitive dye that becomes visible as the absorbent
granules become saturated. (The color itself is not so important as the color changing).
A color change from white to purple or violet typically indicates that the CO2 scavenger
granules have become saturated with CO2, but this color change does not always
happen, and will dissipate after a few hours.
1/27/17
While examining a high-producing dairy cow that is off-feed, the vet puts her
stethoscope on the left side in a line between the left elbow and the cow's hip bones
and starts flicking her fingers against the side of the cow while listening to the
stethoscope.
What is she listening for? - ✔️✔️C - The musical ping of a left displaced abomasum
This is the way you check for the musical ping of a left displaced abomasum.
Normally the abomasum lies more or less along the bottom right side of the lower
abdomen, but sometimes it can distend with gas and float upwards like a balloon,
becoming a displaced abomasum (DA).
A DA can usually be heard with a stethoscope by flicking your middle finger over it and
listening for a musical ping, much like the sound you get by flicking your finger against a
basketball.
1/30/17 Which animal cannot normally regurgitate or vomit?
A - Horse
B - Cow
C - Pig
D - Ferret - ✔️✔️A. Horse
Horses cannot vomit or regurgitate, normally. Vomiting is an OMINOUS sign if you ever
see it in a horse.
1/31/17
You and the vet are called to a dairy farm at 4 a.m. for a "prolapse".
1/23/17 If an IV set dispenses 60 drops/ml, what is the IV drip rate (drops per minute)
needed to give a cat 300 ml of Lactated Ringer's solution (LRS) over 6 hours? -
✔️✔️50 drops/min.
Drip rate =(Volume of solution in ml X drops/ml)/time in minutes.
, 300 ml X 60 drops/ml=18,000 drops.
6 hours X 60 min/hour= 360 minutes
Drip rate= 18,000 drops/360 min=50 drops/min
What kind of problem is this likely to be?
A - Uterus is hanging out
B - Penis cannot retract into prepuce
C - Eyeball popped out of socket
D - Mismating - ✔️✔️A. uterus is hanging out
In cattle, a prolapse almost always means a uterine prolapse, where the uterus has
pushed itself inside out and is hanging outside the cow.(note: there is such a thing as
vaginal prolapse, but it is much less common).
When the penis cannot retract into the prepuce, the problem is called paraphimosis.
A proptosis means "popping out or protruding". The most common emergency proptosis
you will see in practice is a ocular proptosis (sometimes called an eye prolapse, too).
2/1/17
Which of the following choices is a side effect that you should be aware of when using
ketamine for anesthesia in cats?
A - Eyes stay open
B - Dose-dependent respiratory depression
C - Cardiac arrest
D - Laryngospasm - ✔️✔️A. Eyes stay open
Ketamine and tiletamine are dissociative anesthetics often used as a part of the pre-
med to immobilize cats prior to catheter placement or induction of general anesthesia.
A cat's EYES stay OPEN with ketamine/tiletamine, so the corneas must be protected -
an eye ointment like Lacri-lube should be instilled into both eyes.
Remember cats ARE vulnerable to laryngospasm if you touch the larynx too much/too
roughly during intubation for gas anesthesia. Spray with lidocaine topical anesthetic to
prevent laryngospasm
2/2/17
Which direction is rostral?
1/24/17 Which drug causes vomiting in cats? - ✔️✔️Xylazine is used as an EMETIC in
CATS, causes vomiting.
Three things to remember about xylazine:
1. Cattle are EXTREMELY SENSITIVE to xylazine. Cow dose is about 20 times LESS
than dogs or horses.
2. Reversed with yohimbine, atipamezole, or tolazoline.
3. Pretreatment with Atropine can decrease bradycardia, hypersalivation seen with
xylazine in cattle.
Two ANTI-emetics in cats are diphenhydramine (Benadryl®), and metoclopramide.
1/25/17 You must treat a 1000 lb cow infected with Eimeria bovis (an intestinal parasite)
using 9.6% amprolium oral solution. The dose is 10mg/kg PO SID for 5 days.
How much amprolium do you give this cow, and how often each day? - ✔️✔️47 ml,
once a day. A cc is cubic centimeter, which is the same volume as a milliliter, (ml). SID
means once a day.
9.6% concentration contains 96 mg amprolium per ml solution. 1000 lb cow = 454 kg,
(1000lb / 2.2lb/kg=454 kg).
The dose for this cow will be 454 kg x10 mg/kg =4540 mg. To get the dose in ml divide
4540 mg by 96 mg/ml
4540 mg / 96mg/ml =47ml
Eimeria (and isospora) are intestinal protozoal parasites (also called coccidia).
1/26/17
Which choice indicates that the soda lime granules in a CO2 absorbent canister have
become exhausted?
A - Color stays pink, regardless of CO2 exposure
B - Crystals become hard and turn off-white
C - Color change from purple to pink, crystals become powder
D - Color changes to brown and liquid accumulates at the base of the canister - ✔️✔️B.
Crystals become hard and turn off-white
The purpose of a canister of soda lime granules is to absorb carbon dioxide from
exhaled anesthetic gasses.
Fresh absorbent crystals are white and can be crushed. But exhausted, saturated
crystals become a distinct off-white color and are hard.
,Most granules contain a pH-sensitive dye that becomes visible as the absorbent
granules become saturated. (The color itself is not so important as the color changing).
A color change from white to purple or violet typically indicates that the CO2 scavenger
granules have become saturated with CO2, but this color change does not always
happen, and will dissipate after a few hours.
1/27/17
While examining a high-producing dairy cow that is off-feed, the vet puts her
stethoscope on the left side in a line between the left elbow and the cow's hip bones
and starts flicking her fingers against the side of the cow while listening to the
stethoscope.
What is she listening for? - ✔️✔️C - The musical ping of a left displaced abomasum
This is the way you check for the musical ping of a left displaced abomasum.
Normally the abomasum lies more or less along the bottom right side of the lower
abdomen, but sometimes it can distend with gas and float upwards like a balloon,
becoming a displaced abomasum (DA).
A DA can usually be heard with a stethoscope by flicking your middle finger over it and
listening for a musical ping, much like the sound you get by flicking your finger against a
basketball.
1/30/17 Which animal cannot normally regurgitate or vomit?
A - Horse
B - Cow
C - Pig
D - Ferret - ✔️✔️A. Horse
Horses cannot vomit or regurgitate, normally. Vomiting is an OMINOUS sign if you ever
see it in a horse.
1/31/17
You and the vet are called to a dairy farm at 4 a.m. for a "prolapse".
1/23/17 If an IV set dispenses 60 drops/ml, what is the IV drip rate (drops per minute)
needed to give a cat 300 ml of Lactated Ringer's solution (LRS) over 6 hours? -
✔️✔️50 drops/min.
Drip rate =(Volume of solution in ml X drops/ml)/time in minutes.
, 300 ml X 60 drops/ml=18,000 drops.
6 hours X 60 min/hour= 360 minutes
Drip rate= 18,000 drops/360 min=50 drops/min
What kind of problem is this likely to be?
A - Uterus is hanging out
B - Penis cannot retract into prepuce
C - Eyeball popped out of socket
D - Mismating - ✔️✔️A. uterus is hanging out
In cattle, a prolapse almost always means a uterine prolapse, where the uterus has
pushed itself inside out and is hanging outside the cow.(note: there is such a thing as
vaginal prolapse, but it is much less common).
When the penis cannot retract into the prepuce, the problem is called paraphimosis.
A proptosis means "popping out or protruding". The most common emergency proptosis
you will see in practice is a ocular proptosis (sometimes called an eye prolapse, too).
2/1/17
Which of the following choices is a side effect that you should be aware of when using
ketamine for anesthesia in cats?
A - Eyes stay open
B - Dose-dependent respiratory depression
C - Cardiac arrest
D - Laryngospasm - ✔️✔️A. Eyes stay open
Ketamine and tiletamine are dissociative anesthetics often used as a part of the pre-
med to immobilize cats prior to catheter placement or induction of general anesthesia.
A cat's EYES stay OPEN with ketamine/tiletamine, so the corneas must be protected -
an eye ointment like Lacri-lube should be instilled into both eyes.
Remember cats ARE vulnerable to laryngospasm if you touch the larynx too much/too
roughly during intubation for gas anesthesia. Spray with lidocaine topical anesthetic to
prevent laryngospasm
2/2/17
Which direction is rostral?
