1. If an operating room nurse is to assist a patient to the Trendelenburg position, he or she would place him:

2. Recent research has indicated that inadvertent hypothermia in gerontologic patients can be effectively and inexpensively prevented by:

3. Epinephrine is often used in combination with a local infiltration anesthetic, because it:

4. There are four stages to general anesthesia. An unconscious patient with normal pulse and respirations is considered to be in the stage known as:

5. A nurse knows that perioperative risks increase with age because:

6. A factor involved in postspinal anesthesia headaches is the:

7. Postoperative nursing assessment for a patient who has received a depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent includes careful monitoring of the:

8. An example of a stable and safe nondepolarizing muscle relaxant is:

9. Currently, the most commonly used volatile liquid anesthetic agent is:

10. A local infiltration anesthetic can last for up to:

11. The circulating nurse’s responsibilities, in contrast to the scrub nurse’s responsibilities, include:

12. Preoperatively, an anesthesiologist is responsible for:

13. The nurse caring for a patient who is at risk for malignant hyperthermia subsequent to general anesthesia would assess for the most common early sign of:

14. The nurse should know that, postoperatively, a general anesthetic is primarily eliminated by:

15. An intravenous anesthetic that has a powerful respiratory depressant effect sufficient to cause apnea and cardiovascular depression is: