DAANCE UPDATED STUDY EXAMS GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Hematuria - ✔✔What is the term for blood in the urine?
✔✔Pulmonary artery - ✔✔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 - ✔✔What is the blood flow through the heart?
✔✔100% O2, turn patient to their right side with head down, tonsil suction, intubate -
✔✔What is the treatment for emesis with aspiration?
✔✔Laryngospasm - ✔✔Crowing sounds, labored breathing, suprasternal retraction &
rocking of the chest and abdomen (paradoxical) are signs of what?
✔✔100% O2, head tilt chin position, tonsil suction, bag/mask, succinylcholine -
✔✔Treatment of a laryngospasm
✔✔Tracheostomy - ✔✔Surgical airway below level of larynx into the trachea is called
what?
✔✔Capnograph/capnometer - ✔✔Device that monitors ventilation in real time by
measuring the level of O2 the patient exhales
✔✔Pulse oximeter - ✔✔Device that monitors ventilation and circulation
✔✔Bronchspasm - ✔✔Difficulty with expiration not inspiration, wheezing and labored
breathing are signs of what medical emergency?
✔✔100% O2, Albuterol inhaler, epi, ETT/LMA or Igel, and a steroid - ✔✔Treatment of
bronchospasm
✔✔MP 1 - ✔✔What MP classification is visualization of soft palate, fauces, uvula,
anterior and posterior pillars?
✔✔MP 2 - ✔✔What MP classification is visualization of soft palate, fauces & uvula?
✔✔MP 3 - ✔✔What MP classification is visualization of soft palate and base of tongue?
✔✔MP 4 - ✔✔What MP classification would the soft palate not be visible at all?
,✔✔Morphine, oxygen, nitroglycerin, aspirin - ✔✔What does MONA stand for?
✔✔Oxygen, nitroglycerin, aspirin, and morphine (ONAM) - ✔✔What is the actual order
of MONA?
✔✔Systolic blood pressure - ✔✔Ventricular contraction is which phase of BP?
✔✔Dystolic blood pressure - ✔✔Ventricular relaxation is what phase of BP?
✔✔Repolarization of the ventricles - ✔✔The T wave on a cardiac monitor tracing is
evidence of what change in polarization?
✔✔Epiglottis - ✔✔What anatomical structure located at the top of the larynx closes the
airway and prevents foreign bodies from entering the trachea?
✔✔Tongue - ✔✔What is most likely to cause obstruction of the airway when an
anesthetized patient is lying in a supine position?
✔✔Pulmonary artery - ✔✔Blood is pumped to the lungs from the heart through what
vessel?
✔✔Alveoli - ✔✔Small, sac-like structures located at the end of the respiratory tract in
which O2 and CO2 are exchanged.
✔✔Epiglottis - ✔✔Soft tissue valve that covers the larynx and allows food to enter the
esophagus is called the?
✔✔Common carotid - ✔✔Artery located in the neck that is readily palpated when
looking for a patient's pulse.
✔✔Brain and spinal cord - ✔✔CNS consists of:
✔✔Blood supply to the brain - ✔✔Patient with a history of TIA has had a temporary
lessening of?
✔✔Ischemic heart disease - ✔✔Decreased blood flow in the coronary arteries is caused
by?
✔✔Medical history - ✔✔Main purpose of the review of systems is to obtain a careful
evaluation of the patient's ______________?
✔✔Drug excretion - ✔✔Patient who has renal disease would be expected to have
difficulty with what?
,✔✔Basic medical information, process of evaluating the patient & the patient's
psychological status - ✔✔Medical history is used to document?
✔✔SOB, edema, ascites - ✔✔CHF can result in all of the following:
✔✔95-100% - ✔✔Normal blood O2 saturation in an ASA (class) I patient ranges from:
✔✔Subject to postoperative infections - ✔✔Diabetic patients are at risk for oral surgery
because they are:
✔✔6 months - ✔✔Patient who has had a MI should wait how long before having
elective surgery?
✔✔Grave's disease - ✔✔Hyperthyroidism is also considered?
✔✔Hepatitis A - ✔✔Hepatitis caused by contaminated food or water
✔✔Hepatitis B - ✔✔Hepatitis most frequently in patients who have been incarcerated or
who have been treated for STDs
✔✔Hepatitis C - ✔✔Hepatitis caused by contaminated needles (IV drug use)
✔✔Ascites - ✔✔What is the term for large fluid filled abdomen?
✔✔Hepatic coma - ✔✔Prolonged CNS depression in a patient with liver disease can
result in a condition called?
✔✔Liver disease - ✔✔Patients who have ______ disease don't have the ability to
produce clotting factors
✔✔INR (international normalized ratio) - ✔✔Ratio of how long it takes a patient's blood
to clot
✔✔Cirrhosis - ✔✔Liver disease with the formation of fibrous tissue and is most
commonly caused by alcoholism is called what?
✔✔Acute renal failure - ✔✔Sudden onset, can't have NSAIDS, caused by heavy blood
loss, dehydration, injury
✔✔Chronic renal failure - ✔✔the progressive loss of renal function over a period of
months or years, usually on dialysis
✔✔Hemodialysis - ✔✔Patients go to a dialysis center several hours a day, usually 3
days/week. Are given Heparin during dialysis, and have a shunt or AV fistula
, ✔✔Periotoneal dialysis - ✔✔Natural membrane in patients abdomen is used for dialysis,
less efficient and carried out for a longer period of time
✔✔Anemic - ✔✔Renal failure patients tend to become _____ because they can't
produce adequate blood cells
✔✔Seizures - ✔✔Transient disturbance of cerebral functions
✔✔Tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure - ✔✔Most common type of seizure
✔✔Prodromal phase, ictal tonic clonic phase, post ictal phase - ✔✔3 phases of grand
mal seizures
✔✔Grand mal status (status epilepticus) - ✔✔Seizure lasting 5 minutes or longer
✔✔Petit mal seizure - ✔✔2nd type of seizure
✔✔Dilantin hyperplasia - ✔✔Drug given to seizure patients that cause
swelling/inflammation of gingival tissues
✔✔TIA stroke
(transient ischemic attack) - ✔✔Mini stroke- recovery within 24 hours
✔✔Aspiration and respiratory obstruction - ✔✔Patients who have had strokes in the
past are more prone to _______ and ______ during anesthesia
✔✔2nd trimester - ✔✔Best trimester to perform oral surgery in
✔✔1st trimester - ✔✔What trimester has the greatest risk for oral surgery?
✔✔Obesity - ✔✔20% above ideal body weight
✔✔Overwight - ✔✔BMI 25-29 is considered
✔✔Obese - ✔✔BMI over 30 is considered
✔✔Morbidly obese - ✔✔BMI over 40 is considered
✔✔Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) - ✔✔Cessation of air flow for more than 10 seconds
✔✔2-3 - ✔✔Patients INR is often _____ when on Coumadin
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Hematuria - ✔✔What is the term for blood in the urine?
✔✔Pulmonary artery - ✔✔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 - ✔✔What is the blood flow through the heart?
✔✔100% O2, turn patient to their right side with head down, tonsil suction, intubate -
✔✔What is the treatment for emesis with aspiration?
✔✔Laryngospasm - ✔✔Crowing sounds, labored breathing, suprasternal retraction &
rocking of the chest and abdomen (paradoxical) are signs of what?
✔✔100% O2, head tilt chin position, tonsil suction, bag/mask, succinylcholine -
✔✔Treatment of a laryngospasm
✔✔Tracheostomy - ✔✔Surgical airway below level of larynx into the trachea is called
what?
✔✔Capnograph/capnometer - ✔✔Device that monitors ventilation in real time by
measuring the level of O2 the patient exhales
✔✔Pulse oximeter - ✔✔Device that monitors ventilation and circulation
✔✔Bronchspasm - ✔✔Difficulty with expiration not inspiration, wheezing and labored
breathing are signs of what medical emergency?
✔✔100% O2, Albuterol inhaler, epi, ETT/LMA or Igel, and a steroid - ✔✔Treatment of
bronchospasm
✔✔MP 1 - ✔✔What MP classification is visualization of soft palate, fauces, uvula,
anterior and posterior pillars?
✔✔MP 2 - ✔✔What MP classification is visualization of soft palate, fauces & uvula?
✔✔MP 3 - ✔✔What MP classification is visualization of soft palate and base of tongue?
✔✔MP 4 - ✔✔What MP classification would the soft palate not be visible at all?
,✔✔Morphine, oxygen, nitroglycerin, aspirin - ✔✔What does MONA stand for?
✔✔Oxygen, nitroglycerin, aspirin, and morphine (ONAM) - ✔✔What is the actual order
of MONA?
✔✔Systolic blood pressure - ✔✔Ventricular contraction is which phase of BP?
✔✔Dystolic blood pressure - ✔✔Ventricular relaxation is what phase of BP?
✔✔Repolarization of the ventricles - ✔✔The T wave on a cardiac monitor tracing is
evidence of what change in polarization?
✔✔Epiglottis - ✔✔What anatomical structure located at the top of the larynx closes the
airway and prevents foreign bodies from entering the trachea?
✔✔Tongue - ✔✔What is most likely to cause obstruction of the airway when an
anesthetized patient is lying in a supine position?
✔✔Pulmonary artery - ✔✔Blood is pumped to the lungs from the heart through what
vessel?
✔✔Alveoli - ✔✔Small, sac-like structures located at the end of the respiratory tract in
which O2 and CO2 are exchanged.
✔✔Epiglottis - ✔✔Soft tissue valve that covers the larynx and allows food to enter the
esophagus is called the?
✔✔Common carotid - ✔✔Artery located in the neck that is readily palpated when
looking for a patient's pulse.
✔✔Brain and spinal cord - ✔✔CNS consists of:
✔✔Blood supply to the brain - ✔✔Patient with a history of TIA has had a temporary
lessening of?
✔✔Ischemic heart disease - ✔✔Decreased blood flow in the coronary arteries is caused
by?
✔✔Medical history - ✔✔Main purpose of the review of systems is to obtain a careful
evaluation of the patient's ______________?
✔✔Drug excretion - ✔✔Patient who has renal disease would be expected to have
difficulty with what?
,✔✔Basic medical information, process of evaluating the patient & the patient's
psychological status - ✔✔Medical history is used to document?
✔✔SOB, edema, ascites - ✔✔CHF can result in all of the following:
✔✔95-100% - ✔✔Normal blood O2 saturation in an ASA (class) I patient ranges from:
✔✔Subject to postoperative infections - ✔✔Diabetic patients are at risk for oral surgery
because they are:
✔✔6 months - ✔✔Patient who has had a MI should wait how long before having
elective surgery?
✔✔Grave's disease - ✔✔Hyperthyroidism is also considered?
✔✔Hepatitis A - ✔✔Hepatitis caused by contaminated food or water
✔✔Hepatitis B - ✔✔Hepatitis most frequently in patients who have been incarcerated or
who have been treated for STDs
✔✔Hepatitis C - ✔✔Hepatitis caused by contaminated needles (IV drug use)
✔✔Ascites - ✔✔What is the term for large fluid filled abdomen?
✔✔Hepatic coma - ✔✔Prolonged CNS depression in a patient with liver disease can
result in a condition called?
✔✔Liver disease - ✔✔Patients who have ______ disease don't have the ability to
produce clotting factors
✔✔INR (international normalized ratio) - ✔✔Ratio of how long it takes a patient's blood
to clot
✔✔Cirrhosis - ✔✔Liver disease with the formation of fibrous tissue and is most
commonly caused by alcoholism is called what?
✔✔Acute renal failure - ✔✔Sudden onset, can't have NSAIDS, caused by heavy blood
loss, dehydration, injury
✔✔Chronic renal failure - ✔✔the progressive loss of renal function over a period of
months or years, usually on dialysis
✔✔Hemodialysis - ✔✔Patients go to a dialysis center several hours a day, usually 3
days/week. Are given Heparin during dialysis, and have a shunt or AV fistula
, ✔✔Periotoneal dialysis - ✔✔Natural membrane in patients abdomen is used for dialysis,
less efficient and carried out for a longer period of time
✔✔Anemic - ✔✔Renal failure patients tend to become _____ because they can't
produce adequate blood cells
✔✔Seizures - ✔✔Transient disturbance of cerebral functions
✔✔Tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure - ✔✔Most common type of seizure
✔✔Prodromal phase, ictal tonic clonic phase, post ictal phase - ✔✔3 phases of grand
mal seizures
✔✔Grand mal status (status epilepticus) - ✔✔Seizure lasting 5 minutes or longer
✔✔Petit mal seizure - ✔✔2nd type of seizure
✔✔Dilantin hyperplasia - ✔✔Drug given to seizure patients that cause
swelling/inflammation of gingival tissues
✔✔TIA stroke
(transient ischemic attack) - ✔✔Mini stroke- recovery within 24 hours
✔✔Aspiration and respiratory obstruction - ✔✔Patients who have had strokes in the
past are more prone to _______ and ______ during anesthesia
✔✔2nd trimester - ✔✔Best trimester to perform oral surgery in
✔✔1st trimester - ✔✔What trimester has the greatest risk for oral surgery?
✔✔Obesity - ✔✔20% above ideal body weight
✔✔Overwight - ✔✔BMI 25-29 is considered
✔✔Obese - ✔✔BMI over 30 is considered
✔✔Morbidly obese - ✔✔BMI over 40 is considered
✔✔Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) - ✔✔Cessation of air flow for more than 10 seconds
✔✔2-3 - ✔✔Patients INR is often _____ when on Coumadin
