Mcq Subject: Anaesthesia
Which of the following is not true about Xenon anaesthesia –
A. Non explosive
B. Minimal cardiovascular side effects
C. Slow induction and slow recovery
D. Low blood gas solubility
View DescriptionMost of the anaesthetic drugs are detectable by entropy monitoring except:
A. Isoflurane
B. Halothane
C. Nitrous oxide
D. Sevoflurane
View DescriptionIn local anaesthesia, which of the following is the first sequence to go –
A. Temprature
B. Parasympathetic
C. Motor
D. Preganglionic sympathetic
View DescriptionVisual analogue scale most widely used to measure
A. Sleep
B. Sedation
C. Depth of anaesthesia
D. Pain intensity
View DescriptionAn in-hospital workup of a 78-year-old hypeensive, mildly asthmatic man who is receiving chemotherapy for colon cancer reveals symptomatic gallstones. Preoperative laboratory results are notable for a hematocrit of 24% and urinalysis with 18 to 25 WBCs and gram-negative bacteria. On call to the operating room, the patient receives intravenous penicillin. His abdomen is shaved in the operating room. An open cholecystectomy is performed and, despite a lack of indications, the common bile duct is explored. The wound is closed primarily with a Penrose drain exiting a separate stab wound. On postoperative day 3, the patient develops a wound infection. Which of the following changes in the care of this patient could have decreased the chance of a postoperative wound infection?
A. Increasing the length of the preoperative hospital stay to prophylactically treat the asthma with steroids
B. Treating the urinary infection prior to surgery
C. Shaving the abdomen the night prior to surgery
D. Continuing the prophylactic antibiotics for 3 postoperative days
View DescriptionAll statements regarding ketamine are true except –
A. May be arrythmogenic
B. Raised ICT do not respond to CO2 level
C. Vasodilator and negative ionotropic effect
D. Psychomimetic emergence
View DescriptionA 71-year-old man develops dysphagia for both solids and liquids and weight loss of 60 lb over the past 6 months. He undergoes endoscopy, demonstrating a distal esophageal lesion, and biopsies are consistent with squamous cell carcinoma. He is scheduled for neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by an esophagectomy. Preoperatively he is staed on total parenteral nutrition, given his severe malnutrition reflected by an albumin of less than 1. Which of the following is most likely to be a concern initially in staing total parenteral nutrition in this patient?
A. Hyperkalemia
B. Hypermagnesemia
C. Hypoglycemia
D. Hypophosphatemia
View DescriptionIn ophthalmology, a patient is allergic to aminoesters. What can be used ?
A. Cocaine
B. Procaine
C. Prilocaine
D. Tetracaine
View DescriptionWhich of the following anesthetic agent may have cerebroprotective affect :
A. Barbiturates
B. Ketamine
C. Etomidate
D. All show cerebroprotective effect
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