Surgery Anesthesia Midterm Part 4

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Surgery Anesthesia Midterm: Pain Management Quiz

Test your knowledge on the principles of pain management and anesthesia in surgical settings with our comprehensive quiz. Covering essential topics such as analgesic classes, pain types, and procedural protocols, this quiz is designed for veterinary professionals and students alike.

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Idiopathic pain is defined as:

Pain that is of unknown cause

Pain that is caused by cancer

Pain that is caused by inflammation

Pain that is caused by injury to nerves

Which of the following drug group(s) is (are) most often given by CRI?

Opioids.

Local anesthetics.

N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonists.

All are correct

Pathologic pain is defined as:

Pain that is prolonged and exaggerated

Pain that is caused by cancer

Pain that is not associated with tissue injury

Pain that is of unknown cause

Because each animal is an individual, it is in the best interest of the pet to wait until it shows signs of pain before administering analgesia.

True

False

The role of the technician encompasses all of the following except except:

choosing the type of analgesia to be administered to a patient

educating the owner on proper home analgesia

providing the veterinarian with information to administer analgesic medications

assessing the patient,

When might a patient need an intravenous bolus of an analgesic drug?

If the heart rate rapidly increases.

If the blood pressure markedly rises.

If the patient moves during surgical stimulation.

All are correct

What does increasing the concentration of gas anesthesia during a painful procedure do?

Increases the animal’s pain threshold.

Keeps the animal immobile but does not manage pain.

Reduces the animal’s pain threshold.

Keeps the animal immobile and manages pain.

Preemptive pain management prevents the likelihood of all the following except:

Allodynia.

Hyperexcitability.

Hyperalgesia

Hypoalgesia

The American Animal Hospital Association encourages hospitals to recognize pain as which of the following?

A potential income generator.

A necessary element to keep animals quiet postoperatively.

A vital sign.

A subjective value that cannot be quantified.

An ovariohysterectomy, which involves surgically incising the skin and abdominal wall and excising the uterus and ovaries, has the following components of pain:

Neither somatic nor visceral pain

Both somatic and visceral pain

Visceral pain only

Somatic pain only

The process by which thermal, mechanical, or chemical noxious stimuli are converted into electrical signals called action potentials is:

Transmission

Transduction

Perception

Modulation

In the spinal cord, pain impulses can be altered by neurons that either suppress or amplify nerve impulses. This process is known as:

Perception

Transmission

Transduction

Modulation

Where in the pain pathway does secondary sensitization or “windup” occur?

Spinal cord

Peripheral pain receptors

Visceral pain receptors

Brain

Which of the following statements regarding multimodal analgesic therapy is true?

The dose of each drug is decreased when several drugs are used.

Side effects are increased by using several drugs.

Multiple pain receptor mechanisms are targeted by one drug.

One pain receptor mechanism is targeted by several drugs.

Which of the following drug combinations is an example of multimodal analgesic therapy?

Dexmedetomidine, sevoflurane

Dexmedetomidine, morphine, ketamine

Acepromazine, ketamine, isoflurane

Acepromazine, morphine, isoflurane

Which one of the following analgesic plans targets three different pain receptor mechanisms?

Morphine IM, ketamine CRI, lidocaine nerve block

Ketamine CRI, lidocaine and bupivacaine nerve block

Morphine IM, fentanyl CRI, lidocaine nerve block

Morphine IM, fentanyl CRI, bupivacaine nerve block

Administering analgesics before tissue injury is known as:

Premedication

Local analgesia

Multimodal analgesia

Preemptive analgesia

Which of the following is not a potential side effect of opioid administration in cats and dogs?

Dysphoria

Renal failure

Respiratory depression

Vomiting

What is the mechanism of action of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs?

They are mu-opioid receptor agonists.

They are alpha2-receptor agonists.

They inhibit prostaglandin synthesis.

They block sodium channels.

Which of the following is not a potential side effect of NSAID administration?

Respiratory depression

Kidney damage

Gastrointestinal ulcers

Liver damage

Clinical signs of pain in a dog may include of all of the following except

Aggression

Restlessness

depression.

decreased temperature.

When assessing an animal’s pain, it is good to use a VAS pain scale. VAS stands for

visual analogue scale.

visual subjective scale.

veterinary analogue scale.

veterinary analytic scale.

The five vital signs under anesthesia that a veterinary technician must be constantly aware of are

pulse, respiration, blood pressure, mucous membrane color, and pain.

temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and pain.

temperature, pulse, respiration, blood gasses, and mucous membrane color.

temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and mucous membrane color.

Preemptive analgesia means the best way to treat pain is to

wait until the animal absolutely needs some relief.

prevent it.

supply the maximum allowed dosages of pain medication.

treat immediately upon signs of pain and distress.

Multimodal analgesia means

combining two or more classes of analgesic drugs to alter more than one phase of nociception.

combining two or more analgesic drugs.

using analgesic drugs to affect both the PNS and CNS.

using one class of drug to affect or alter more than one phase of nociception.

Signs of pain in animals can be categorized as

psychologic or metabolic.

behavioral or temporal.

metabolic or physiologic.

physiologic or behavioral.

When using an endotracheal tube with an underinflated cuff all of the following maybe potential problems except

pollution of the work space with anesthetic gas.

necrosis of the tracheal mucosa.

aspiration of stomach contents.

difficulty with or inability in keeping the patient anesthetized.

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