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Graphic recording of the patient’s vital parameters like heart rate and blood pressure often allow an easier identification of problems. 

The 2 factors that determine cardiac output are: (select one answer) 

 Acetylcholine is typically removed from the neuromuscular junction by which one of the following mechanisms?

On a bottle of epinephrine the concentration is shown as 1:1000. What concentration is this in milligrams/milliliter? 

Noninvasive blood pressure measurement using a doppler flow detector and a sphygmomanometer best estimates which one of the following? 

A drug’s affinity is best defined as which one of the following?

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.