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Nose/nasal passages, sinuses, pharynx - ✔✔ correct answer What consists of the upper airway?
Larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, pulmonary alveoli - ✔✔ correct answer What consists of the
lower airway?
Immediate hypersensitivity response that involves antigen-antibody reactions (IgE) - ✔✔ correct
answer What is the most severe type of allergic reaction?
Liver - ✔✔ correct answer What is the largest gland in the body?
Pediatric patients - ✔✔ correct answer 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) - ✔✔ correct answer What does HIPAA
stand for?
Ischemia - ✔✔ correct answer 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 - ✔✔ correct answer 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 - ✔✔ correct answer Type of
infection that can further damage heart valves or cause systemic infections? Requires antibiotic
prophylaxis
P wave - ✔✔ correct answer Atrial depolarization (contraction)
QRS complex - ✔✔ correct answer Ventricular depolarization
T wave - ✔✔ correct answer Ventricular repolarization (relaxation)
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Cushing's disease - ✔✔ correct answer 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 - ✔✔ correct answer 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 - ✔✔ correct answer Most severe complication of hyperthyroidism from an OMS
perspective
Hyperthyroidism - ✔✔ correct answer Untreated __________ are at an increased risk for outpatient
anesthesia and tend to be sensitive to epinephrine in a local anesthetic
Diabetes Type 1 - ✔✔ correct answer Insulin-dependent
Diabetes Type 2 - ✔✔ correct answer Non-insulin dependent
Elevated LFTs (Liver function tests) - ✔✔ correct answer Elevated level of several liver enzymes and
bilirubin is often termed?
Women - ✔✔ correct answer What gender is Propofol more rapidly redistributed in and require 10-
15% larger dose?
Children - ✔✔ correct answer What age group would Propofol redistribute very rapidly, and require
at least 50% increase in drug dose?
Diffusion hypoxia - ✔✔ correct answer What is a complication of N2O rapidly moving from blood to
alveoli of lungs, and displaces other gases, including O2
General anesthesia - ✔✔ correct answer Patient is not aroused, even during painful stimulation.
Required airway intervention & cardiovascular function is impaired
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Deep sedation/analgesia - ✔✔ correct answer Can't be easily aroused, purposeful response to pain,
and requires airway assistance
Moderate sedation (conscious sedation) - ✔✔ correct answer Response to verbal or light tactile
touch with no compromise of airway
Minimal sedation (anxiolysis) - ✔✔ correct answer Normal response to verbal stimulation with
airway reflexes, ventiliation & cardiovascular functions are unaffected
Valium or Versed - ✔✔ correct answer What drugs are given for minimal sedation (anxiolysis)
Balanced anesthesia - ✔✔ correct answer Anesthesia that relies on the use of several agents
together to benefit from each other. Using each drug at a smaller dose than required if it were being
used alone
0.2 mg - ✔✔ correct answer Maximum does of Epi for a healthy patient?
100% O2, Dantrolene (2.5 mg/kg) and IV cold saline (NOT Ringer's) - ✔✔ correct answer What is the
treatment for Malignant Hyperthermia?
Hypertension - ✔✔ correct answer What emergency would a beta blocker be given?
0.04 mg - ✔✔ correct answer What is the maximum dose of Epi for a patient with cardiovascular
disease?
Asystole - ✔✔ correct answer Cardiac arrest- has no rhythm or contraction of EKG
Ventricular fibrillation (V-fib) - ✔✔ correct answer No discernable P, QRS or T waves noted. No
pumping of blood at all and no depolarization of the ventricles
V-Fib or Asytole - ✔✔ correct answer What are 2 emergencies would Epi be given in?
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Lidocaine - ✔✔ correct answer What are PVCs treated with?
Versed, valium or propofol - ✔✔ correct answer What medications can be given for a severe case of
hyperventilation?
Ventricular tachycardia (V-tach) - ✔✔ correct answer Dysrhythmia with a rapid firing of an ectopic
focus with a rate of 140-200 BPM but no P wave
Amiodarone - ✔✔ correct answer What medication would be given for V-tach?
Adenosine, Inderal or Esmolol - ✔✔ correct answer What are 3 different medications that could be
given for SVT?
Atropine - ✔✔ correct answer What medication would be given for symptomatic bradycardia?
Airway obstruction - ✔✔ correct answer What emergency would a cricothyrotomy typically be
performed?
ETT, LMA or ETA (endotracheal tube, laryngeal mask airway, esophageal tracheal airway) - ✔✔
correct answer What type of intubation is preferred with emesis and aspiration?
Medical information that helps oral surgeons identify poor-risk patients, guide treatment, and
written evidence the patient was given to evaluate the treatment plan - ✔✔ correct answer What
are the 3 basic requirements to follow when gathering medical information?
Hematuria - ✔✔ correct answer What is the term for blood in the urine?
Pulmonary artery - ✔✔ correct answer What is the artery that carries oxygen-poor (venous) blood
from the heart to the lungs?
Right atrium, right ventricle, pulmonary artery, lungs, pulmonary veins, left atrium, left ventricle,
aorta - ✔✔ correct answer What is the blood flow through the heart?