DAANCE ANESTHETIC MEDICATIONS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS UPDATED 2024 -2025
What medication is not as highly bound to fat as others? ANS - Brevital
This may cause hiccups, tachycardia, and respiratory depression ANS - Brevital
You should use this cautiously in patients with cardiac dysrhythmias ANS - Local Anesthetic
What is Valium (Diazepam) used for? ANS - To sedate the patient
What medication is used as an antagonist for narcotics? ANS - Naloxone (Narcan)
This medication can cause bad dreams with emergence ANS - Ketamine
What organ detoxifies barbituates? ANS - Liver
What are the 4 important characteristics that apply to anesthetic agents? ANS - 1. Not Toxic
2. Non Flammable
3. Non addictive
4. Minimal Allergenicity
This medication causes amnesia? ANS - Versed
Name a benzodiazepine? ANS - Versed
Versed, Propofol, Brevital, and Ketmine are used for? ANS - Relaxation and immobility
, What medication is the most effective in causing hypnosis (loss of consciousness)? ANS - Propofol and
barbiturates
Name a barbiturate ANS - Brevital
What medication helps to prevent laryngospasms? ANS - Robinol and Atropine
What medication relieves Angina? ANS - Nytroglycerine
Microscopic channels within the membranes of neurons through which charged particles or ions pass
during conduction of the nerve impulse. ANS - Ion Channels
A reversal of charge across the neuronal membrane caused by the movement of positively and
negatively charged ions through ion channels. ANS - Depolarization
An advancing wave of charge reversal as the nerve impulse advances along the neuron ANS - Wave of
depolarization
Reestablishment of the normal distribution of charge across a neuronal membrane ANS -
Repolarization
The junction between two nerves, the impulse "jumps across" ANS - Synapse
Bulge at the end of a nerve ANS - Terminal button
What is the gap between two nerves called ANS - Synaptic Cleft
Chemical substance that crosses the synaptic cleft and activates opening of ion channels in the
postsynaptic nerve, and thereby enables the nerve impulse to passed from on nerve to the next. ANS -
Neurotransmitter
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