Chapter 5

Question 1

Bradycardia

Answer 1

slowness of the heartbeat, in dogs and cats to less than 60bpm

Question 2

Bupivacaine

Answer 2

a local anesthetic. It is the drug of choice at 0.5% solution of 5 mg/ml

Question 3

Caudal mandibular block

Answer 3

a regional nerve block in which all of the teeth of the mandible on the side of infiltration as well as adjacent bone and soft tissue are blocked

Question 4

Caudal maxillary block

Answer 4

a regional nerve block in which both the maxillary nerve and the sphenopalatine nerve/ganglia are anesthetized

Question 5

Hypotension

Answer 5

Diminished tension, lowered blood pressure. In animals, almost the only occurrence is in severe peripheral circulatory failure, especially traumatic, toxemic, or anaphylactic shock

Question 6

Hypoventilation

Answer 6

reduction in the amount of air entering the pulmonary alveoli

Question 7

Infiltration blocks

Answer 7

a method of local anesthesia. Rather than blocking an entire quadrant, infiltration blocks block only the are where the infiltration has been administered

Question 8

Regional anesthesia

Answer 8

a method of local anesthesia in which an entire quadrant is blocked

Question 9

Rostral mandibular block

Answer 9

a regional nerve block in which the inferior alveolar nerve within the mandibular canal via the middle mental foramen is anesthetized

Question 10

Rostral maxillary block

Answer 10

a regional nerve block in which the infraorbital nerve is infiltrated as it exits the infraorbital canal

Question 11

Toxicity

Answer 11

the characteristic or quality of being poisonous, especially the degree of virulence of a toxic microbe or of a poison