Anaesthetic Pharmacology MCQs

Anaesthesia · 6 free questions with answers & explanations.

1. A patient on chronic phenytoin therapy requires general anaesthesia. The anaesthetist notices that significantly higher doses of vecuronium are needed for intubation. The MOST likely mechanism is:
2. The blood-gas partition coefficient of a volatile anaesthetic agent determines primarily:
3. Sugammadex reverses neuromuscular blockade by which mechanism?
4. A 70 kg, 28-year-old woman receives succinylcholine 100 mg for rapid sequence intubation. She does not fasciculate and appears to have prolonged neuromuscular blockade lasting 4 hours. Which enzyme deficiency MOST likely explains this?
5. Nitrous oxide is avoided in patients with air-containing closed body spaces (bowel obstruction, pneumothorax, middle ear surgery) because:
6. Etomidate is preferred over propofol for induction in a patient with suspected adrenal insufficiency because: