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Sx/Ax/Dentistry
Exam #1
137
Veterinary Medicine
Not Applicable
02/02/2015

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Term
What's a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiologic rxn?
Definition
Agonist
Term
What's a drug that causes a loss of sensitivity to pain?
Definition
Analgesics
Term
What's a drug that binds to receptors and block their action?
Definition
Antagonist
Term
What's drug that inhibits the action of of acetylcholine by competing at receptor sites. They are antagonists to parasympathetic nerve fibers.
Definition
Anticholinergics
Term
What's an agent that prevents the clotting of blood?
Definition
Anticoagulant
Term
What is the lack of equality between parts/aspects of something?
Definition
Asymmetry
Term
What is uncoordinated movements and is the loss of full control of body movements?
Definition
Ataxia
Term
What is listening with a stethoscope?
Definition
Auscultation
Term
What is the fraction of anticoagulation blood that contains mostly WBCs and platelets?
Definition
Buffy coat
Term
What is to surround or encircle something?
Definition
Circumferentially
Term
What's a series of sharp short noises pertaining to respiratory sounds?
Definition
Crackling
Term
What's a grating sound/sensation under the skin with bone and cartilage scraping, or in the lungs?
Definition
Crepitus
Term
What's situated or occurring within the trachea?
Definition
Endotracheal
Term
What's the term for situated with a organ or tissue?
Definition
Interstitium
Term
What's the term for situated within the abdomen?
Definition
Intraabdominal
Term
What's the term for within a blood vessel?
Definition
Intravenous
Term
What's an instrument for examining the larynx or for inserting a tube through it?
Definition
Laryngoscope
Term
What's a question that prompts or encourages the desired answer and is not a yes or no question?
Definition
Leading question
Term
What's another name for mental activity?
Definition
Mentation
Term
What's the term for normal blood pressure?
Definition
Normotensive
Term
What's touching or feeling with the hands?
Definition
Palpation
Term
What's age, sex, and breed?
Definition
Signalment
Term
What's the area inferior to the pelvic diaphragm & between the legs? Triangle-shaped area.
Definition
Perineal
Term
What's the position on the chest where the impulse of the left ventricle of the heart is felt most strongly?
Definition
Point of maximum intensity
Term
What's an instrument that measuures refractive index/solids?
Definition
Refractometer
Term
What's ROM?
Definition
Range of motion
Term
What's a whistling or rattle in the chest?
Definition
Weezing
Term
Why's it important to use surgical instruments only for their designated purpose?
Definition
To avoid damaging them, to protect their useful life, and they're expensive and should be handled with care
Term
Why's it important for ratchets to remain locked when the jaw is closed?
Definition
The instrument needs to be a reliable mechanism of holding the target tissue/item, and if they don't remain locked complications could result (hemorrhage)
Term
What type of scissors are delicate and used on tissues?
Definition
Metzenbaum
Term
What type of needle-holders also have scissors?
Definition
Olsen-Hegar
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T/F The Allis tissue forceps are considered traumatic.
Definition
True
Term
T/F The Gelpi retractor is a handheld retractor used during orthopedic procedures.
Definition
False
Term
T/F The Balfour retractor is a self-retaining retractor used during exploratory procedures.
Definition
True
Term
What converts liquid anesthetic into gas?
Definition
Vaporizer
Term
Which valve allows for room air to enter the anesthetic system if negative pressure is detected?
Definition
Negative pressure relief valve
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When might a situation of negative pressure exist in the anesthetic machine?
Definition
When the O2 source is depleted
Term
Which part of the anesthetic machine indicates the amount of pressure in the system?
Definition
A pressure manometer
Term
When the rebreathing bag is being squeezed to ventilate the patient manually, the pop-off valve needs to be...
Definition
Closed and then opened after giving a breath
Term
Why's it important to confirm that the pop-off valve is completley opened after the anesthetic machine has been checked for leaks?
Definition
The patient cant exhale with it closed
Term
What measures the % of oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood?
Definition
Pulse oximeter
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What size bag does a 27kg dog need?
Definition
2L (60xkg)
Term
What suction tip is best used for removing large amounts of fluid?
Definition
Poole
Term
What instrument is used to collect large amounts of bone graft material?
Definition
Bone curette
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What should be avoided if using a non-rebreathing system?
Definition
Using the fast flush valve
Term
What manometer reading should never be exceeded when bagging a patient?
Definition
20 cm H2O
Term
What clipper blades should be used for prepping surgery sites?
Definition
40-50
Term
What's PLR?
Definition
Pupillary light response
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What's the absence of pathogenic microorganisms that cause infection?
Definition
Aseptic
Term
What's an agent that inhibits the growth of bacteria?
Definition
Bacteriostat
Term
What's working from within the cuffs of the surgical gown so that the hands never touch the outside of the gown or gloves?
Definition
Closed
Term
What's putting on a item of clothing?
Definition
Donning
Term
What's something to cover the hair to prevent contamination?
Definition
Head cover
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What's the expelling of bacteria from the body?
Definition
Microbial shedding
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What's the use of antibiotics to prevent infection at the surgery site?
Definition
Prophylactic antibiotics
Term
What're microorganisms already living on your skin?
Definition
Resident microbes
Term
What're flakes on the surface of the skin as new skin grows beneath, aka dandruff?
Definition
Scurf
Term
What're coverings over your shoes tthat prevent contamination?
Definition
Shoe covers
Term
What's the term for under the nails and hooves?
Definition
Subungual area
Term
What's a substance that tends to reduce the surface tension of a liquid in which it's dissolved?
Definition
Surfactant
Term
What does a head covering, face mask, gown, sterile gloves, and shoe cover make up?
Definition
Surgucal dress code
Term
What's the standard time it takes to complete a taask?
Definition
Timed method
Term
What are microbes that are "passing through," they may attempt to colonize but fail for many reasons?
Definition
Transient microorganisms
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What's the bacterium that causes TB?
Definition
Tubercle bacillus
Term
What's a set of specfic practices & procedures performed under carefully controlled conditions with the goal of minimizing contamination by pathogens?
Definition
Aseptic technique
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What's a non-sterile person who opens items for the surgical team and helps maintain surgical conscience?
Definition
Circulating nurse
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What's a lint-free cloth dampened with water is used to wipe down horizontal surfaces?
Definition
Damp dusting
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What's a source of contamination that comes from the surgery teeam, or the environment?
Definition
Exogenous contamination
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What makes disinfectants ineffective and consist of hair, feces, litter, and tissue?
Definition
Organic material
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What's the area on and above a sterile object?
Definition
Sterile field
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What's contamination that occurs when liquid soaks through a drape from a sterile area to an unsterile area or vice versa?
Definition
Strike-through
Term
What's knowing what's sterile and what's not?
Definition
Surgical conscience
Term
What's cleaning that's performed at the completion of the daily surgery schedule?
Definition
Terminal cleaning
Term
What's the term for not producing injury or damge?
Definition
Atraumatic
Term
What's the hinged part of the needle holder, tissue forceps, or hemostatic forceps?
Definition
Box lock
Term
What's pucturing a body cavity or organ to pull off fluid?
Definition
Centesis
Term
What's the term to bring out of the body?
Definition
Exteriorize
Term
What's elevated CO2 in the blood?
Definition
Hypercarbia
Term
What term means to interlock like the fingers of two clasped hands?
Definition
Interdigitate
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What's a method of assisted or controlled ventilation in which the hands are used to generate airway pressure?
Definition
Manual ventilation
Term
What's a steel alloy that contains high amounts of chromium and loittle amounts of nickel?
Definition
Matensitic stainless steel
Term
What's how readily suture retains its shape that it had in the package?
Definition
Memory
Term
What's attaching something so that it's permanently affixed?
Definition
Permanent fixation
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What's the ingestion if bacteria or other material by phagocytes?
Definition
Phagocytosis
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What means to fuse, as suture material to the end of a suture needle?
Definition
Swaged
Term
What's neutralizing or counterbalancing a forced?
Definition
Tempering
Term
What's the resistance of a meterial to breaking under tension?
Definition
Tensile strength
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What's the regulation of ones body temperature?
Definition
Thermoregulation
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What's moving or operating in a single direction?
Definition
Unidirectional
Term
What's urine free in the peritoneal cavity?
Definition
Uroabdomen
Term
What's a drug-induced state of calm in which the patient is reluctant to move and is aware of but uncorncerned about its surroundings?
Definition
Tranquilization
Term
What's the loss of sensation in a limited area to the body produced by administration of a local anesthetic or other agent in proximity to the area of interest?
Definition
Regional anesthesia
Term
What's a sleeplike state from which the patient can be arousedwith sufficient stimulation?
Definition
Hypnosis
Term
What's administration of multiple drugs concurrently in smaller quantities than would be required if each were given alone?
Definition
Balanced anesthesia
Term
Which of these can be not be around with sufficient stimulation?: Sedation, Narcosis, General Anesthesia, and Hypnosis
Definition
General anesthesia
Term
Which are more sensitive to opioids?: Horses/Cats and Dogs/Ruminants?
Definition
Horses/cats
Term
T/F Dehydration increasess the risk for hypotension.
Definition
True
Term
What's a patient in a sleeplike state, nonresponsive to verbal stimulus but arousable by painful stimulus?
Definition
Stuporous
Term
How dehydrated is this patient?: Skin turgor somewhat slow, tacky MM, CRT less than 1.5 sec, and the eyes aren't sunken.
Definition
6-8%
Term
T/F About two thirds of the total body water is inside the cells.
Definition
True
Term
What % of body weight does blood plasma volume take up?
Definition
5%
Term
What type of fluid is most appropriate for patients with moderate dehydration?
Definition
Isotonic crystalloids
Term
100 ml/hr is an example of a...
Definition
Infusion rate
Term
What's the delivery rate for microdrip administration sets?
Definition
60 gtt/mL
Term
T/F Intravascular fluid has more negative ions than positive.
Definition
False
Term
T/F Extracellular fluid contains more sodium than intracellular fluid.
Definition
True
Term
T/F Intracellular fluid has more potassium than intravascular fluid.
Definition
True
Term
T/F Crystalloids are generally given at lower administration rates than colloids.
Definition
False
Term
What's a neuroleptanalgesic a combination of?
Definition
An opioid and a tranquilizer
Term
T/F Most anesthetic agents will not cross the placental barrier.
Definition
False
Term
Where do anticholinergic drugs, such as atropine, block the release of acetylcholine?
Definition
Muscarinic receptors of the parasympathetic system
Term
T/F High doses of opioids can cause respiratory depression and bradycardia.
Definition
True
Term
What's the reversal for dexmedetomidine?
Definition
Atipamezole
Term
What are opioids reversed with?
Definition
Naloxone
Term
When would you use etomidate?
Definition
Animals with severe cardiac disease
Term
What side effect is frequently seen when recovering from telazol?
Definition
Excitement
Term
Increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, increased CSF pressure, and increased intraoculaar pressure are side effects from what type of sedative?
Definition
Dissociative
Term
What's the most common side effects of isoflurane?
Definition
Respiratory depression
Term
Xylazine and dexmedetomidine are examples of what?
Definition
Alpha2 agonists
Term
In orthopedic sx, why does the shaving include the entire limb?
Definition
It needs to be shaved and prepped so that the limb can be moved and manipulated without contamination
Term
T/F Prophylaxis antibiotics therapy should be given to all surgiical candidates.
Definition
False
Term
T/F Chlorhexadine scrub can be used as the final sterile surgical paint.
Definition
False
Term
When should head covers and masked be donned?
Definition
Before the surgical hand rub/scrub
Term
What's the best gloving technique to ward off contamination?
Definition
Closed gloving
Term
What's insensitivity to pain, especially through gas or drug administration?
Definition
Anesthesia
Term
What's the loss of sensitivity to pain?
Definition
Analgesia
Term
What's anesthesia that effects the whole body and usually induces lack of consciousness?
Definition
General anesthesia
Term
What's anesthesia administered so that a surgical procedure can be performed?
Definition
Surgical anesthesia
Term
What's the administering of a sedative drug to produce a state of calm or sleep?
Definition
Sedation
Term
What's to sedate or relief of anxiety or tension by the administration of a drug?
Definition
Tranquilization
Term
What's a sleepike state from which the patient can be arpused with sufficient stimulation?
Definition
Hypnosis
Term
What's the state of stupor, drowsiness, or unconsciousness produced by drugs?
Definition
Narcosis
Term
What's anesthesia that affects a retricted area of the body?
Definition
Local anesthesia
Term
What's anesthesia that blocks pain to a certain part of the body?
Definition
Regional anesthesia
Term
What's the injection of a local anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord?
Definition
Epidural anesthesia
Term
What's the range of aesthetics that safe for a patient?
Definition
Therapeutic Index
Term
What's it called when something is harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant?
Definition
Noxious
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