Pediatric Anesthesiology
Congenital Heart Disease - QUIZ

DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTION NUMBERS 1-4: Each question below is followed by four suggested answers or completions. Select the one that is best in each case and click on the button containing the corresponding letter.

1. When examining an infant, the best place to look for the cyanosis of a physiologic R->L intracardiac shunt is the
2. In a preoperative patient with tetralogy of Fallot, the best indicator of the magnitude of the average, chronic R->L shunt is the
3. In the late-gestation fetal circulation, all of the following are true EXCEPT
4. In pediatric postop cardiac patients, ketamine
DIRECTIONS FOR QUESTION NUMBERS 5-10: For each of the following questions or incomplete statements, ONE or MORE of the answers or completions given is correct. Click below on button
5. Ketamine is relatively contraindicated for induction of anesthesia in an infant with
  1. anomalous left coronary artery.
  2. critical aortic stenosis.
  3. hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
  4. tetralogy of Fallot.


6. Inhalational induction and maintenance with early postop extubation in the OR may be a satisfactory technic for
  1. pulmonary valvotomy for simple pulmonic stenosis in a 7-year-old.
  2. closure of an ASD in a child.
  3. repair of an isolated coarctation of the aorta.
  4. ligation of a PDA in a 4-year-old.


7. In simple transposition of the great arteries there is a large
  1. anatomic L->R shunt
  2. physiologic L->R shunt
  3. anatomic R->L shunt
  4. physiologic R->L shunt


8. The newborn ductus arteriosus is likely to be constricted by
  1. oxygen
  2. acetycholine
  3. indomethacin
  4. PGE1


9. The magnitude of shunting across a simple nonrestrictive VSD depends on
  1. location of the VSD
  2. left ventricle to right ventricle pressure gradient
  3. size of the VSD
  4. pulmonary and systemic vascular resistances


10. During induction of anesthesia in infants and children with cyanotic congenital heart disease, which agent(s) is(are) associated with an increase in systemic arterial oxygen saturation?
  1. thiopental
  2. fentanyl
  3. halothane
  4. ketamine


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