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Upon assessment of a patient who does not open their eyes and does not have a motor / verbal response, the cumulative Glascow Coma Scale Score is: 

An airway assessment reveals direction visualization of only the hard palate, this person would be classified as a Mallampati: 

A patient who is chronically administered Phenytoin needs to have a preoperative:

The structure that prevents the movement of swallowed materials from advancing into the larynx and trachea is the:

Name valley indicated.

A preoperative evaluation DOES NOT include: 

An infrequently occurring, severely impacting, yet often disclosed risk of anesthesia is: 

Innervation of everything below the epiglottis, except the cricothyroid muscle is accomplished via the:

A male patient who is 33 years old, 5’10 and weights 290 lbs with a calculated BMI of 41.6. He takes no home medications and does not smoke or drink alcohol. The appropriate physical status score to assign (ASA Score) is:

The structures that separate the nasopharynx from the oropharynx are the: (Select 2)