Anesthesia Pharmacology Practice Questions: Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs

Anesthesia Pharmacology: Sedative-Hypnotic Drug Practice Questions

Preoperative depressant medication contraindicated
1. cancer surgery
2. severe pulmonary disease
3. hypovolemia
4. co-existing pain
5. regional anesthesia
Pharmacologic presurgical premedication
1. Provide an IV injection of an antiemetic drug just prior to induction
2. Provide by IV injection an opioid analgesic just before induction in order to insure effective postoperative pain management
3. Appropriate to use preoperative sedative-hypnotics to insure a more rapid rate of induction
4. premedication with atropine to manage cardiac vagal activity during surgery, should be provided before induction since this approach is thenbest way to guarantee antimuscarinic activity during surgery
5. none of the above
intramuscular administration
1. triazolam (Halcion)
2. temazepam (Restoril)
3. flurazepam (Dalmane)
4. midazolam (Versed)
Suppression of recall for events before amnestic drugs are administered:
1. anterograde amnesia
2. retrograde amnesia
Suppression of recall for events after amnestic drugs are administered:
1. anterograde amnesia
2. retrograde amnesia
Midazolam (Versed):
1. more likely to cause anterograde amnesia
2. more likely to cause retrograde amnesia
painful intramuscular infection
1. midazolam (Versed)
2. diazepam (Valium)
benzodiazepine used in premedication; more likely to cause excessive sedation
1. lorazepam (Ativan)
2. midazolam (Versed)
3. flumazenil (Romazicon)
Benzodiazepines, administered preoperatively, may impede the stress-induced cortisol release response
1. true
2. false

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