Anesthesia Confidence Quiz

1. A 12-year-old Labrador with a heart murmur needs a dental procedure. Your first priority in anesthetic planning should be:

Use the lightest anesthesia possible to minimize risk

Perform pre-anesthetic bloodwork and consider cardiac evaluation

Avoid anesthesia altogether and recommend dental treats

Use the same protocol you'd use for a young, healthy dog

2. During anesthesia monitoring, you notice the obstructive waveform, also known as a "shark fin," has suddenly flatlined while the patient still has a heartbeat from the pulse oximeter.

The patient has died

The endotracheal tube is kinked or disconnected

The anesthetic machine has malfunctioned

This is normal during certain surgical procedures

3. True or False: Brachycephalic patients should be extubated as soon as possible after surgery to reduce anesthetic time.

True

False

4. A patient's blood pressure reads 60 mmHg systolic during anesthesia. Your immediate response should be:

Wait and recheck in 5 minutes

Decrease the anesthetic gas immediately and consider appropriate hemodynamic support such as fluid bolus, vasopressor or contractility agents, or anticholinergics.

Wake the patient up immediately

This is within normal range, continue monitoring

5. Which statement about pain assessment is most accurate?

If a patient is sleeping, they're not in pain

Cats show pain the same way dogs do

Pain assessment should be performed using validated scales and requires careful observation of behavior

Patients on pain medication don't need ongoing pain assessment

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