CME education and self-assessment

Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care (1997) 8, 295-300 © 1997 Harcourt Brace & Co. Ltd

Education and self-assessment a) enflurane

e) Raynaud's phenomenon of the lung.

MCQs and selfassessment

b) desflurane

A n s w e r T r u e or False.

c) halothane

Question 1

d) cyclopropane

The biochemical picture 'at presentation' of pyloric stenosis includes:

e) methoxyflurane.

Scenario 1

A four-year-old child has fallen and is suspected of aspirating a tooth. The ENT registrar requests your help fbr its removal. What should you do?

Question 4

a) low urinary chloride ions b) increased urinary hydrogen ions

The following are features of chronic obstructive lung disease:

c) hyperchloraemia

a) reduced secretion of mucus

d) hypokalaemia e) hypoventilation.

b) reduced residual volume

Scenario 2

c) reduced forced vital capacity

You are requested to provide general anaesthesia for a 76-yearold man for a carotid endarterectomy. How should one proceed?

Question 2

d) reduced life expectancy

Ropivacaine toxicity results in:

e) increased exercise tolerance following lung reduction surgery.

a) bronchospasm b) ventricular arrhythmias c) involuntary movements

Question 5 _

d) pupillary constriction

The following are causes of pulmonary hypertension:

e) central nervous system excitation. -Question 3

The tollowing anaesthetic agents are ethers:

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a) Reye's syndrome b) polycythaemia rubra vera c) sickle cell disease d) hypothyroidism

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Short Notes Write short notes: 1. Temperature control in theatre 2. Volume of distribution. 3. Amiodarone. 4. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in neonates.