Glasgow BVMS3 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Glasgow BVMS3 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is the definition of dehydration? - CORRECT ANSWER- A deficit in total body
water
What is the best definition for hypovolemia? - CORRECT ANSWER- Deficit in
intravascular volume
What are clinical signs of hypovolemia? - CORRECT...
Glasgow BVMS3 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is the definition of dehydration? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A deficit in total body
water
What is the best definition for hypovolemia? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Deficit in
intravascular volume
What are clinical signs of hypovolemia? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Tachycardia, weak
peripheral pulses, cool extremities
What is the best fluid for dehydration? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Hartmann's solution
(compound sodium lactate)
What is the formula for fluid deficit? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔body weight * %
dehdydration
T/F: Intraoperative blood loss can be estimated from the change in a patient's packed cell
volume (PCV). - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False - PCV falls when volume is replaced,
often several hours after the blood loss occurred
T/F intra-operative blood loss can be estimated by counting the number of blood-soaked
surgical swabs - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True - 4x4" swab holds 5-10 mL of blood
T/F intra-operative blood loss can be quantified by weighing blood-soaked swabs -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True, 1 mL of blood weighs ~1.3 g
T/F for some types of surgery, lost blood can be collected in a suction apparatus and
quantified in this way - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Yes, but collected blood is often diluted
by suction so the PCV of the fluid must be compared to the PCV of the patient
What is the approximately blood volume in the cat (in mL/kg)? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔60 mL/kg
, For losses of >15% of blood volume in cats, what fluid should be considered? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Compatible (typed) fresh whole blood transfusion
What type of fluid would you choose to give for an animal exhibiting clinical signs of shock
before surgery? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Colloid and Hartmann's solution
Gelatin-based colloid (eg gelofusine)
Hartmann's solution
Horse with colic, weak pulse, shock, what fluid therapy prior to surgery? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔7.2% sodium chloride and Hartmann's solution
A veterinary surgeon prescribing for, or administering a medicine to, food producing under
the animals under the cascade is required to specify an appropriate withdrawal period. Unless
the medicine indicates a withdrawal period for the species concerned, for eggs and milk this
should not be less than ____ days. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔7 days
What is the most appropriate treatment for a dog presenting with hypovolemic shock? (fluid
and rate) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔IV Hartmann's solution at 90 mL/kg/hr administered
as a shock dose over 10-15 minutes followed by re-assessment of clinical signs
In what type of dog is compression at the widest point of the thorax the most appropriate
means of generating blood flow during cardiopulmonary arrest? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔larger dogs except sighthounds (due to narrow thorax - compress directly over the heart)
What is the most common cause of hypoxemia following RTA in the dog? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Pulmonary contusion
What treatment option is contraindicated following ingestion of a corrosive substance? -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Induction of emesis
Over-exposure of thoracic radiographs can lead to artefact production. Over-exposure is due
to (high/low) (kV/mA)? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔high kV
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