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The most common complication of facelift is[answer1] which requires perioperative control of [answer2]

Your patient is s/p mastectomy and chemo & radiation for breast cancer treatment and now desires reconstruction.  Which chemotherapeutic agent is known to cause cardiomyopathy? 

Sometimes the interventional gastroenterologist will ask anesthesia to give ________to promote relaxation of the duodenum and decrease sphincter of Oddi activity.

During one-lung ventilation, the patient’s oxygen saturation starts to drop. The CRNA attempts to troubleshoot the cause but considers factors that might inhibit the protective HPV mechanism. All of the following will minimize the effects of HPV except:

You just finished an outpatient tonsillectomy. After extubation, you note the jaw to have marked rigidity of the jaw.  What is your plan to handle this? 

A patient’s pacemaker is programmed to VVI mode. This code describes which specific pacemaker function?

During radiofrequency coronary ablation, which monitoring device is critical to prevent injury during the ablation?  

During cryoablation, how much of the cardiac output is transiently lost due to pulmonary artery occlusion? 

Select TWO Physiologic effects associated with the clonic phase of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT).

A patient is undergoing a left thoracotomy with one-lung ventilation. The oxygen saturation drops to 82% despite confirming tube position and increasing FiO2 to 100%. Which of the following is the most immediately effective method for managing severe, persistent hypoxia in this situation?