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You have a bottle of 10 mg/ml acepromazine and you would like to dilute it out to 1 mg/ml. What volume of 10 mg/ml acepromazine and what volume of sterile water would you need to make 10 mls of 1 mg/ml acepromazine?

 Carbon dioxide is more soluble in lung tissue and diffuses between the alveoli and pulmonary capillaries more easily than oxygen.

Which of the 4 classes of drugs would be most likely to cause the greatest decrease in peripheral tissue perfusion? 

Patients with significant liver disease are sometimes hypoglycemic.

While all the answers below will decrease central sensitization to some degree which would be most effective? 

You have a 25 kg dog that needs 0.5 mgs/kg of butorphanol which is 10 milligrams/milliliter. What volume of butorphanol should be administered? 

The initial recovery from anesthesia, extubation and raising their head, following propofol (and the thiobarbiturates in the past) is mainly due to which one of these mechanisms? 

Maintaining good maternal oxygenation and placental perfusion is important when anesthetizing a patient for a C-section but not when anesthetizing a pregnant patient for other procedures.

Which one of the following is the best definition of pain? 

Do NSAID’s such as carprofen decrease or increase renal blood flow?