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Surgery EOR Exam Questions And Answers
2025 Update.



_______is the most important anesthetic complication. Anesthesia causes an uncontrolled
increase in skeletal muscle oxidative metabolism, which overwhelms the body's capacity to
supply oxygen, remove CO2, and regulative body temperature. - Answer✔Malignant
hyperthermia


If patient is hyperkalemic (normal range 3.8-5.0), how should you treat the patient? -
Answer✔treat with glucose/insulin, and calcium +/-bicarb


_______is the reversing agent for opiods. - Answer✔Naloxone


_______is the reversing agent for benzodiazipines. - Answer✔Flumazenil


What is the best indicator used to monitor nutritional status? - Answer✔prealbumin - every 2-3
days


Intervention:
_________require central access and indicated when no enteral feeding for > 7 days. -
Answer✔TPN - total peripheral nutrition


The _________is the most important part of the history before surgery. - Answer✔cardiac
history -- history of MI, unstable angina, valvular disease




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In patients with known cardiac disease, aggressive intraoperative lowering of myocardial
oxygen demand with ____ has been shown in RCT's to improve outcomes and should be used. -
Answer✔beta blockers


When accessing cardiac disease prior to surgery, what is the most important thing to access? -
Answer✔aortic stenosis -- crescendo diastolic rumble at apex


Guidelines for the use of antibiotics include administration within _______ of surgery and
redosing after 4 hours. What is the abx of choice? - Answer✔1 hour
Abx of choice: cefazolin for all except colorectal then cefazolin/metronidazole


Pre-op -- Metabolic disease/syndrome -- what are the 5 criteria? - Answer✔3/5 to diagnose:
1 - diabetes
2 - central obesity
3 - HTN
4 - high serum triglycerrides
5 - low HDL levels


______should be monitored before surgery bc it is a stimulant and vasoconstrictor -- can lead
to severe tachycardia - Answer✔Cocaine


Pre-Op -- What are the indications for EKG and CXR? - Answer✔EKG - men >40, women>50,
known CAD, DM, or HTN
CXR - age >50, known cardiac or pulmonary disease


What are the 5 classic "W's" of post operative fever? - Answer✔W - wind (atelectasis)
W - water (UTI)
W - wound (wound infection)
W - walking (DVT/thrombophlebitis)
W - wonder drugs (drug fever)


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If the post op fever occurs within the first 24 hours of surgery, what is the most likely cause? -
Answer✔wind/atelectasis


If the post op fever occurs within days 3-5 post op, what is the most likely cause? -
Answer✔water/UTI, catheter related phlebitis, pneumonia


If the post op fever occurs within days 5-10 post op, what is the most likely cause? -
Answer✔wound infection, pneumonia, abscess, infected hematoma, C diff colitis, anastomotic
leak, DVT, peritoneal abscess, drug fever, PE, parotitis


_______is the most common pathogen in wound infections and around foreign bodies. -
Answer✔Staph aureus


_______invades the inner ear and enteric tissues as well as the lung. - Answer✔Klebsiella


______organisms are often found together with anaerobes. - Answer✔Enteric organisms ie.
enterobacteriaceae and enterococci


Among the anaerobes, ___&___are often present in surgical infections and _____species are
major pathogens in ischemic tissue. - Answer✔Bacteroides & Peptostreptococci; Clostridium


___&___are usually nonpathogenic surface contaminants but may be opportunistic.


Some fungi and yeast cause abscesses in sinus tracts. - Answer✔Pseudomonas & Serratia


History of recent surgery, trauma, cancer, prolonged immobilization, or oral contraceptive use
increases the risk of ____. - Answer✔DVT - deep vein thrombosis


What is Homan's sign? - Answer✔pain on passive dorsiflexion of ankle



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What is the test of choice for DVT? - Answer✔doppler ultrasound


How is the D-dimer text useful? - Answer✔It is good at ruling a DVT out (if the text is negative)
but not rule it in


Tx of DVT --
1. Initiate use of ____or____to what dose?
2. Overlap with the use of ____to what therapeutic range?

3. Why overlap therapies? - Answer✔DVT
1. Initiate Heparin to PTT of 0.3-0.7 U/mL or LMWH wo monitoring.
2. Overlap with warfarin to INR between 2-3.
3. Overlap therapies to decrease changes of hypercoagulable state.


The most common cause of SIRS (systemic inflammatory response syndrome) is sepsis. What
are the criteria for dx of SIRS? - Answer✔At least 2 of the following:
1. temp >38C or <36C
2. tachy >90
3. tachypnea > 20 breaths/minute
4. PCO2 <32mmHg
5. WBC > 12,000/uL or <4000/uL


After sepsis, what are the next two most common causes of SIRS? - Answer✔pancreatitis and
drugs


What is the difference between hypovolemia and dehydration? - Answer✔hypovolemia is loss
of both water and sodium while dehydration is loss of intracellular water or deficit with
hypernatremia -- dehydration occurs when patient can not adjust water intake for water loss




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