IONM Board PREP Questions and Answers University of Texas Arlington

What do the letter A.S.A.M. stand for in anesthesia? A Analgesia, Amnesia, Sedation, Motion -- 2 Q What drugs that play as role in Analgesia? A NSAIDs, Narcotics -- 3 Q What drugs are classsified as IV anesthetic? A Ketamine & Etomindate -- 4 Q What muscle relaxants are non depolarizing A Vercuronium, Rocuronium, Atracuronium -- 5 Q What does MAC stand for? A Minimum alveolar concentration -- 6 Q What tells you the amount of anesthetic agent present in the patient’s circulation? A End tidal -- 7 Q What factor would not decrease the sensitivity of a MAC of agent ? A Hypothermia -- 8 Q What factor would increase the sensitivity of a MAC of agent? A Hypothermia -- 9 Q What are the factors that do not affect a MAC of agent A Hypertension, Gender, Duration of anethesia, Metabolic alkalosis -- 10 Q What is a MAC of Isoflurane? A 1.20% -- 11 Q What is a Mac of Sevoflurane? A 2.00% -- 12 Q What is a MAC of Desflurane? A 6.00% -- 13 Q what is a MAC of N2O? A 104% -- 14 Q What is a charachteristic of isoflurane? A Fast onset and recovery -- 15 Q What is a characteristic of sevoflurane? A Intermediate onset and recovery -- 16 Q What is a charachteristic of desflurane? A Slowest onset and recovery -- 17 Q T or F: Anesthetics suppress excitatory transmissions and potentate inhibitory transmission. A True -- 18 Q What effect do anesthetics have on the post synaptic function? A Suppresion of the post synaptic function -- 19 Q What type of paralytic acts as a competitive agonist? A Depolarizing -- 20 Q What type of paralytic competes with ACh at the receptor? A Depolarizing -- 21 Q What type of paralytic inhibits the receptor from receiving or responding to ACh? A Non - Depolarizing -- 22 Q Which type of paralytic does not directly compete with ACh? A Non - Depolarizing -- 23 Q What percent of muscles are paralyzed with 2/4 twithches A 85% -- 24 Q What type of drug can be used systematically on the opiate receptors of the CNS pain receptors to control the body’s perception of pain without altering PNS sensory and motor conduction? A Nacotics . . . . . . . . . .