NBCRNA RV STUDY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Goals of General anesthesia 1-5 correct answers 1Anesthesia. Analgesia — loss of response to pain 2. Amnesia — loss of memory 3. Immobility — loss of motor reflexes 4. Unconsciousness — loss of consciousness 5. Skeletal muscle relaxation Anesthesia - General Anesthesia - correct answers practice of applied rx interactions General - at a minimum = a hypnotic + analgesic Pre-anesthetic evaluation includes? key factors? what is important? why? correct answers - includes review of the medical record and/or interviews the patient to determine the best combination of drugs and dosages, degree of monitoring required to ensure a safe and effective procedure. - Key factors of this evaluation are the patient's age, BMI and IBW, medical and surgical history, current medications, and fasting time. - Thorough and accurate answering of the questions is important so that the anesthetist can select the proper anesthetic drugs and procedures. - Commonly used medications (e.g., sildenafil, etoh, recreational rx) can interact with anesthesia drugs; failure to disclose such usage can also ↑ the risk to the patient. There are some situations (where patients are on a certain medication and must undergo a given procedure) in which local or regional can be given, but instead general anesthesia is chosen, though this is not extremely common due to the fact that general anesthesia is by nature more dangerous and the agents used react with many more medications. - Evaluation of the patient's airway AW Eval involves? if looks difficult? correct answers