Surgical Technology, Principles, Unit 4,Anesthesia(proctored practice)

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Preoperative anesthesia assessment is usually performed by ______ before the scheduled surgery.

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What is the name of the phase that begins with the anesthetic agents turned off and the patient beginning to become conscious.

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What is it called when anesthesia has to induce the patient quickly after the endotracheal tube is inserted because the patient has a full stomach?

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What size tube is commonly used on the female patient (average size - adult patient)?

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The drug commonly used for induction to render the patient unconscious and is derived from eggs is called what?

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One common barbiturate that is sometimes used to render the patient unconscious is called?

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A commonly used narcotic analgesic by anesthesia is called?

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The Sellick maneuver is sometimes used before intubation to avoid aspiration of the stomach contents because it compresses the esophagus. This is also called:

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What is the name of the gas that is sometimes used by anesthesia as a “carrier” gas?

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Narcan is the name of an antagonist drug that reverses the action of a/an .

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What inhalant gas is commonly used to induce a child during the induction stage?

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A long narrow plastic tube inserted into the patient to carry inhalants to the respiratory tract

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To inject in one specific area to numb that area

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A person who assists anesthesia during induction

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Type of drug that can be used to render the patient unconscious during induction (not commonly used anymore)

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Muscular twitching and jerking movement

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Decrease of/or insensibility to pain

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An R.N. who has taken a specific program in anesthesia and passes the state board exam to administer anesthesia

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Removal of endotracheal tube

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System that filters and reticulates exhaled gas from the patient back to the patient

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Injection of a local anesthetic drug into a nerve plexus to numb the area where the nerves supply motor and sensory sensations

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Loss of memory

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An M.D. who has specialized in the field of anesthesia

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Insertion of an endotracheal tube

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An inhalant gas commonly used to induce children (gas induction)

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A potent short-acting hypnotic/sedative used by anesthesia to induce the patient

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This tube is used when endotracheal intubation is difficult?

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The generic name of this inhalant is called halothane

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A local anesthetic is placed in the subarachnoid space

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Newer inhalant gas that has to be heated to vaporize

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The trade name of fentanyl

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Intravenous infiltration of a local anesthetic into a vein in the arm, to numb the arm, and a double tourniquet is used

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Non-depolarizing muscle relaxant

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Muscle relaxant antagonist (reversal) used to reverse the action of non-depolaring muscle

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One inhalant that is piped into the anesthesia machine and is the only true gas

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A system of classifying patients for risk of anesthesia (6 classes in all)

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Most commonly used inhalant

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Depolarizing muscle relaxant that is short acting and used for intubation

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List the three phases of anesthesia. (not stages)

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What is malignant hyperthermia?

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What is the name of the device that is placed on the finger of the patient that monitors oxygen saturation?

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What is the difference between general anesthesia and regional anesthesia?

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What levels of the lumbar vertebrae can the spinal needle be inserted during a spinal block?

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Which type of regional block does CSF drip out of the needle before the local is injected?

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What drug is commonly added to local anesthetics that causes vasoconstriction?

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What nerve is involved when a block for the arm or shoulder area is performed?

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What narcotic drug is commonly injected into an epidural catheter to manage postoperative pain?

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Why are children most commonly induced with an inhalant gas?

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Name two possible complications of anesthesia.

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What is the responsibility of the surgical technologist (scrub person) during induction?

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List the four stages of anesthesia.

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What is an LMA and when is it used?

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What is the name of the block that uses two tourniquets and the local is injected via a needle in the vein?

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What is the name of the drug that is given when a patient is in a malignant hyperthemia crisis or may be given to prevent the crisis?

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What is a complication of a spinal block and a major discomfort to the patient postoperatively?

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What is the purpose of the balloon cuff on an endotracheal tube?

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What are the two main types of muscle relaxants? (I do not want the name of a specific drug)