QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, pulmonary alveoli.
Answer: What consists of the lower airway?
●● Immediate hypersensitivity response that involves antigen-antibody
reactions (IgE).
Answer: What is the most severe type of allergic reaction?
●● Liver.
Answer: What is the largest gland in the body?
●● Pediatric patients.
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).
Answer: What does HIPAA stand for?
●● Ischemia.
,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.
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.
Answer: Type of infection that can further damage heart valves or cause
systemic infections? Requires antibiotic prophylaxis
●● P wave.
Answer: Atrial depolarization (contraction)
●● QRS complex.
Answer: Ventricular depolarization
●● T wave.
Answer: Ventricular repolarization (relaxation)
●● Cushing's disease.
,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.
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.
Answer: Most severe complication of hyperthyroidism from an OMS
perspective
●● Hyperthyroidism.
Answer: Untreated __________ are at an increased risk for outpatient
anesthesia and tend to be sensitive to epinephrine in a local anesthetic
●● Diabetes Type 1.
Answer: Insulin-dependent
●● Diabetes Type 2.
Answer: Non-insulin dependent
●● Elevated LFTs (Liver function tests).
, Answer: Elevated level of several liver enzymes and bilirubin is often
termed?
●● Women.
Answer: What gender is Propofol more rapidly redistributed in and
require 10-15% larger dose?
●● Children.
Answer: What age group would Propofol redistribute very rapidly, and
require at least 50% increase in drug dose?
●● Diffusion hypoxia.
Answer: What is a complication of N2O rapidly moving from blood to
alveoli of lungs, and displaces other gases, including O2
●● General anesthesia.
Answer: Patient is not aroused, even during painful stimulation.
Required airway intervention & cardiovascular function is impaired
●● Deep sedation/analgesia.
Answer: Can't be easily aroused, purposeful response to pain, and
requires airway assistance
●● Moderate sedation (conscious sedation).