Q 01/05

What are the three broad categories of anesthesia?

A) General, sedation and regional or local

B) Light, medium and deep anesthesia

C) Oral, injected and inhaled anesthesia

D) Surgical, dental and veterinary anesthesia

Answer · why

A) General, sedation and regional or local

General anesthesia produces unconsciousness; sedation dampens anxiety and memory; regional and local block nerves in one part of the body.

Q 02/05

What are the three basic goals or endpoints of anesthesia?

A) Sleep, dreaming and total forgetting

B) Breathing, circulation and body warmth

C) Hypnosis, analgesia and muscle relaxation

D) Sedation, paralysis and body cooling

Answer · why

C) Hypnosis, analgesia and muscle relaxation

In a pharmacological context hypnosis means a temporary loss of consciousness and memory.

Q 03/05

Roughly what proportion of patients experience anesthesia awareness under general anesthesia?

A) 1 or 2 in 100

B) 1 or 2 in 1,000

C) 1 or 2 in 100,000

D) 1 or 2 in a million

Answer · why

B) 1 or 2 in 1,000

An estimated 22% of people dream under general anesthesia.

Q 04/05

What percentage of people are estimated to dream while under general anesthesia?

A) 2%

B) 10%

C) 22%

D) 50%

Answer · why

C) 22%

It is not known whether animals dream under anesthesia.

Q 05/05

The potency of an inhaled anesthetic correlates with its solubility in what?

A) Alcohol

B) Oil

C) Blood plasma

D) Water

Answer · why

B) Oil

The drugs bind directly to cavities in proteins of the central nervous system.