DAANCE 2026 EXAMS TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Pt that's had a MI should wait how long before having elective sx - ✔✔6 months
✔✔Diazepam (Valium) used in oral sx for - ✔✔Sedating patient
✔✔Barbiturates detoxifies in - ✔✔Liver
✔✔Local containing epinephrine should be used cautiously in patients who have -
✔✔Cardiac dysthymia
✔✔What's the advantage of using local anesthetic alone - ✔✔Pt doesn't have to be
NPO and no driver necessary
✔✔BP levels will most likely be LOW when - ✔✔Using adult arm cuff on a child
✔✔Monitor device that gives info on circulation and ventilation - ✔✔Pulse oximeter
✔✔3 ways to monitor ventilation - ✔✔Chest rise
Color
Anesthesia bag
✔✔What's cyanosis - ✔✔Blue tinge color of mucous membranes, skin, nails veds
✔✔What monitors pt ventilation in real time - ✔✔Capnograph or capnometer
✔✔What's malignant hyperthermia - ✔✔Can't regulate body's temp
✔✔Heart is an organ made up of specialized type of muscle - ✔✔Myocardium
✔✔How many chambers in the heart - ✔✔4
✔✔Two superior chambers of heart called - ✔✔Atria
✔✔Two chambers below atria - ✔✔Ventricles
✔✔Which chamber is larger - ✔✔Ventricles
✔✔Which chamber is thicker and more powerful - ✔✔L ventricle bc pumps blood to the
body
✔✔R side of heart has what kind of blood - ✔✔Deoxygenated red blood
, ✔✔R atrium receives blood from which 3 sources - ✔✔Superior vena cava
Inferior vena cava
Coronary sinus
✔✔Vessels leading away from heart - ✔✔Arteries
✔✔Vessels leading to heart - ✔✔Veins
✔✔What vessel does blood travel through to get to lungs - ✔✔Pulmonary artery
✔✔Blood picks up what in the lungs - ✔✔Oxygen
✔✔Where does blood go after entering L atrium - ✔✔Through mitral valve into L
ventricle
✔✔Name of smallest veins - ✔✔Venules
✔✔Name of smallest arteries - ✔✔Capillaries
✔✔What's difference between veins and arteries - ✔✔Arteries have much thicker walls
to ah doe pressure of blood flow in them
✔✔Vasoconstriction is - ✔✔When artery constricts and gets smaller
✔✔Vasodilation - ✔✔Arteries relax and increase in size
✔✔Pressure of blood when hearts pumping - ✔✔Systolic
✔✔Pressure blood when hearts at rest - ✔✔Diastolic
✔✔What's pharynx - ✔✔Space bwtn nose and trachea
✔✔3 region of pharynx - ✔✔Nasopharyngeal
Oropharynx
Laryngopharynx
✔✔Laryngoharynx located - ✔✔Directly behind larynx (voice box)
✔✔Another name for trachea - ✔✔Wind pipe
✔✔Diaphragm - ✔✔Dome shaped muscle separates chest cavity from abdominal cavity
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Pt that's had a MI should wait how long before having elective sx - ✔✔6 months
✔✔Diazepam (Valium) used in oral sx for - ✔✔Sedating patient
✔✔Barbiturates detoxifies in - ✔✔Liver
✔✔Local containing epinephrine should be used cautiously in patients who have -
✔✔Cardiac dysthymia
✔✔What's the advantage of using local anesthetic alone - ✔✔Pt doesn't have to be
NPO and no driver necessary
✔✔BP levels will most likely be LOW when - ✔✔Using adult arm cuff on a child
✔✔Monitor device that gives info on circulation and ventilation - ✔✔Pulse oximeter
✔✔3 ways to monitor ventilation - ✔✔Chest rise
Color
Anesthesia bag
✔✔What's cyanosis - ✔✔Blue tinge color of mucous membranes, skin, nails veds
✔✔What monitors pt ventilation in real time - ✔✔Capnograph or capnometer
✔✔What's malignant hyperthermia - ✔✔Can't regulate body's temp
✔✔Heart is an organ made up of specialized type of muscle - ✔✔Myocardium
✔✔How many chambers in the heart - ✔✔4
✔✔Two superior chambers of heart called - ✔✔Atria
✔✔Two chambers below atria - ✔✔Ventricles
✔✔Which chamber is larger - ✔✔Ventricles
✔✔Which chamber is thicker and more powerful - ✔✔L ventricle bc pumps blood to the
body
✔✔R side of heart has what kind of blood - ✔✔Deoxygenated red blood
, ✔✔R atrium receives blood from which 3 sources - ✔✔Superior vena cava
Inferior vena cava
Coronary sinus
✔✔Vessels leading away from heart - ✔✔Arteries
✔✔Vessels leading to heart - ✔✔Veins
✔✔What vessel does blood travel through to get to lungs - ✔✔Pulmonary artery
✔✔Blood picks up what in the lungs - ✔✔Oxygen
✔✔Where does blood go after entering L atrium - ✔✔Through mitral valve into L
ventricle
✔✔Name of smallest veins - ✔✔Venules
✔✔Name of smallest arteries - ✔✔Capillaries
✔✔What's difference between veins and arteries - ✔✔Arteries have much thicker walls
to ah doe pressure of blood flow in them
✔✔Vasoconstriction is - ✔✔When artery constricts and gets smaller
✔✔Vasodilation - ✔✔Arteries relax and increase in size
✔✔Pressure of blood when hearts pumping - ✔✔Systolic
✔✔Pressure blood when hearts at rest - ✔✔Diastolic
✔✔What's pharynx - ✔✔Space bwtn nose and trachea
✔✔3 region of pharynx - ✔✔Nasopharyngeal
Oropharynx
Laryngopharynx
✔✔Laryngoharynx located - ✔✔Directly behind larynx (voice box)
✔✔Another name for trachea - ✔✔Wind pipe
✔✔Diaphragm - ✔✔Dome shaped muscle separates chest cavity from abdominal cavity
