VT102 questions and answers
What is a pulse deficit? ✔✔The heart is beating withoût pumping blood
pulse
What does an analgesic do? ✔✔reduces pain
What happens to the ventilation rate and depth as the anesthesia level
deepens? ✔✔decreases
What are some effects of atropine? ✔✔vagal inhibition and decreased
gastric secretion
What is balanced anesthesia? ✔✔the use of combinations of drugs to
selectively act as anesthetics analgesics, and muscle relaxants
Which of the following is not an effect of anticholinergic drugs? ✔✔airway
constriction
Which of the following drugs would have the strongest analgesic Effect in a
dog? ✔✔Buprenorphine
You are monitoring anesthesi a for an equine surgery and notice that the
blood pressure has suddenly dropped by 40 mm HG and that the
,peripheral pulses have become weak. What is first of action? ✔✔Decrease
the anesthetic gas concentration and increase the IV fluid rate
Which of the following anesthetic agents is contraindicated in sight
hounds? ✔✔thiobarbiturates
Which of the following effects are one of the advantages associated with
the use of ketamine? ✔✔minimal cardiac depression
If atropine was not given to an animal under anesthesia, what would dilated
pupils indicate? ✔✔too deep a plane of anesthesia
When would intermittent positive pressure ventilation be most necessary?
✔✔Thoracic surgery
Which phase of equine anesthesia poses the highest risk to the horse and
is the phase over which the anesthetist has the least control? ✔✔Recovery
What is the classification of ketamine HCl? ✔✔dissociative anesthesic
Minute ventilation is equal to which of the following volumes?
✔✔respiratory rate times tidal volume
What adverse effect be caused by the use of morphine as a preanesthetic?
✔✔excitation and vomitihg
,Naloxone is the reversal agent for which drug? ✔✔oxymorphone
When is a non-rebreathing anesthetic equipment used? ✔✔for all patients
weighing under 15 lbs
What is true regarding rebreathing systems? ✔✔-Rebreathing systemis
utilize carbon dioxide absorption canister to remove- carbon dioxide from
the system
Which of the following drugs is an anticholinergic? ✔✔glycopyrrolate
When should soda lime be changed? ✔✔When half of the granules change
color
What does the speed of recovery from barbiturate anesthesia depend
primarily upon? ✔✔Redistribution from brain to other body tissues
What should always be done prior to anesthetic induction and intubation of
a horse? ✔✔Thoroughly rinse the oral cavity
The circulatory system can be monitored during general anesthesia by
checking which of the following? ✔✔CRT, color of mucous membranes,
heart rate (all of the above)
, Which of the following statements is false regarding sighing of an animal?
✔✔Sighing should be done every 20-30 minutes
What is the main reason for periodically emptying the rebreathing bag on a
closed circuit anesthetic machine? ✔✔Cprevent CO2 build-up and acidosis
What is pressure in the thoracic cavity during normal inhalation?
✔✔negative pressure
What term describes the volume of gas inhaled and exhaled in one breath?
✔✔tidal volume
Why are intravenous barbiturates generally contraindicated in C-sections of
a bitch'? ✔✔Severe respiratory depression of the fetuses resuits
What procedure may cause noticeable effects from stimulation of the vagus
nerve? ✔✔Endotracheal intubation
Which of the following anesthetic agents cause panting? ✔✔narcotics
What should the anesthetist do to prevent atelectasis during anesthesia?
✔✔Sigh the patients periodically
What may interfere with endotracheal intubation? ✔✔laryngospasms
What is a pulse deficit? ✔✔The heart is beating withoût pumping blood
pulse
What does an analgesic do? ✔✔reduces pain
What happens to the ventilation rate and depth as the anesthesia level
deepens? ✔✔decreases
What are some effects of atropine? ✔✔vagal inhibition and decreased
gastric secretion
What is balanced anesthesia? ✔✔the use of combinations of drugs to
selectively act as anesthetics analgesics, and muscle relaxants
Which of the following is not an effect of anticholinergic drugs? ✔✔airway
constriction
Which of the following drugs would have the strongest analgesic Effect in a
dog? ✔✔Buprenorphine
You are monitoring anesthesi a for an equine surgery and notice that the
blood pressure has suddenly dropped by 40 mm HG and that the
,peripheral pulses have become weak. What is first of action? ✔✔Decrease
the anesthetic gas concentration and increase the IV fluid rate
Which of the following anesthetic agents is contraindicated in sight
hounds? ✔✔thiobarbiturates
Which of the following effects are one of the advantages associated with
the use of ketamine? ✔✔minimal cardiac depression
If atropine was not given to an animal under anesthesia, what would dilated
pupils indicate? ✔✔too deep a plane of anesthesia
When would intermittent positive pressure ventilation be most necessary?
✔✔Thoracic surgery
Which phase of equine anesthesia poses the highest risk to the horse and
is the phase over which the anesthetist has the least control? ✔✔Recovery
What is the classification of ketamine HCl? ✔✔dissociative anesthesic
Minute ventilation is equal to which of the following volumes?
✔✔respiratory rate times tidal volume
What adverse effect be caused by the use of morphine as a preanesthetic?
✔✔excitation and vomitihg
,Naloxone is the reversal agent for which drug? ✔✔oxymorphone
When is a non-rebreathing anesthetic equipment used? ✔✔for all patients
weighing under 15 lbs
What is true regarding rebreathing systems? ✔✔-Rebreathing systemis
utilize carbon dioxide absorption canister to remove- carbon dioxide from
the system
Which of the following drugs is an anticholinergic? ✔✔glycopyrrolate
When should soda lime be changed? ✔✔When half of the granules change
color
What does the speed of recovery from barbiturate anesthesia depend
primarily upon? ✔✔Redistribution from brain to other body tissues
What should always be done prior to anesthetic induction and intubation of
a horse? ✔✔Thoroughly rinse the oral cavity
The circulatory system can be monitored during general anesthesia by
checking which of the following? ✔✔CRT, color of mucous membranes,
heart rate (all of the above)
, Which of the following statements is false regarding sighing of an animal?
✔✔Sighing should be done every 20-30 minutes
What is the main reason for periodically emptying the rebreathing bag on a
closed circuit anesthetic machine? ✔✔Cprevent CO2 build-up and acidosis
What is pressure in the thoracic cavity during normal inhalation?
✔✔negative pressure
What term describes the volume of gas inhaled and exhaled in one breath?
✔✔tidal volume
Why are intravenous barbiturates generally contraindicated in C-sections of
a bitch'? ✔✔Severe respiratory depression of the fetuses resuits
What procedure may cause noticeable effects from stimulation of the vagus
nerve? ✔✔Endotracheal intubation
Which of the following anesthetic agents cause panting? ✔✔narcotics
What should the anesthetist do to prevent atelectasis during anesthesia?
✔✔Sigh the patients periodically
What may interfere with endotracheal intubation? ✔✔laryngospasms
