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Prazosin A.14. What is the mechanism of action of the major antihypertensive drugs? B.14. What is the pharmacologic management of CRPS? B.2. How do you pharmacologically prepare the patient with a pheochromocytoma for surgery?
Precose
Prednisone A.7. What treatments are available for a patient with MG? Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease B.15. The patient was on 20 mg of prednisone per day for 5 days as part of the treatment of an asthma exacerbation 3 months ago. He is currently not on corticosteroids. Should the patient receive "stress-dose" corticosteroids? B.3. How are routine medications and immunosuppressive medications managed in the perioperative period? B.3. What are the preoperative concerns of induction immunotherapy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy? D.10. How would you manage this patient in the intensive care unit? D.2. What are immunosuppressive agents, and how do they affect anesthetic care?
Pregabalin B.14. What is the pharmacologic management of CRPS? B.5. Would you premedicate this patient? D.6. What is the evidence regarding the efficacy and utility of perioperative gabapentinoids, intraoperative methadone, and subanesthetic ketamine in postoperative recovery as recommended in ERAS protocols?
Prialt
Prilocaine A.15. How do the dyshemoglobins, methemoglobin (metHb), and carboxyhemoglobin (Hbco) affect Spo2 readings? C.2. What is the systemic toxicity of local anesthetics?
Procainamide A.5. What should be considered in the differential diagnosis? C.6. Twenty minutes into the procedure with sevoflurane anesthesia, the patient develops increasing tachycardia with ventricular premature beats and mottled skin. What emergency measures should you take? C.II-14. How do you prepare an intravenous (IV) infusion of sodium nitroprusside, nicardipine, and nitroglycerin? What are the usual doses? Which do you prefer to use? D.4. What is junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET)?
Procaine B.11. What factors determine the onset, potency, and duration of local anesthetic block? C.2. What is the systemic toxicity of local anesthetics?
Prochlorperazine B.1. What are the rationales for integrating acupuncture in the treatment of PONV? B.6. Are there any psychiatric medications he is taking that would impact your anesthetic care?
Progesterone A.7. What are the neuroprotective effects of administering magnesium (Mg)? A.8. What role do sex and female sex hormones have in the pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury (TBI)? B.15. Is there any way to rapidly antagonize a profound nondepolarizing block? C.1. What factors would alter your anesthetic technique from that used for a nonpregnant patient? C.5. How do the anesthetic requirements of the preterm infant differ from those of the adult? C.5. When this patient arrived in the operating room, she desired a general anesthetic. Describe your technique. D.1. When would you extubate the trachea for this patient?
Prograf
Promethazine A.12. What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)? What is serotonin syndrome? C.8. What components of ERAS are applied in the intraoperative phase of the care of patients undergoing CRS?
Propantheline
Propofol
Propranolol A.13. What changes occur in hepatic function? What are the anesthetic implications of such changes? A.14. What is the mechanism of action of the major antihypertensive drugs? A.7. What are hypercyanotic spells? How are they treated? C.10. During the surgery, the blood pressure increases to 220/120 mm Hg. How would you treat the hypertension? C.4. What drugs are used to control the effects of catecholamine stimulation during surgery? C.9. Would this patient benefit from the use of -blockers? D.1. The patient developed hypertension, BP 210/110 mm Hg, in the postanesthesia care unit. What would you do?
Prostacyclin A.2. What other end-stage lung diseases can be treated with transplantation? A.8. Discuss the pathogenesis of preeclampsia. B.1. What preoperative evaluation is desirable? C.14. What are the effects of anesthetic agents on HPV and their clinical implications? C.16. What respiratory parameters will you target during OLV? How could you improve oxygenation during OLV? C.II-36. How would you decide the need for inotropic support? D.1. Detail the anesthetic management for a patient undergoing LVAD placement D.3. How would you treat RVF following heart transplantation?
Prostaglandin
Prostigmin
Prostin E
Protamine
Pyridostigmine A.7. What treatments are available for a patient with MG? B.1. Describe the preoperative evaluation of this patient. B.3. How should the patient's medications be managed preoperatively? D.1. What factors will help you predict this patient's need for continued tracheal intubation or other postoperative ventilatory support? D.2. How will you determine if this patient's trachea can be safely extubated? Myasthenia Gravis