Question 151
The euthanasia process is hard on everyone. Emotions run higher during these appointments; people are often distraught, and no matter how much you prepare the client for what will happen, you cannot predict everything. Taking care to ensure the process runs smoothly, and that the owner is aware of how the process will work, is okay with it, and understands that the pet may take a few breaths after the heart has stopped, sigh, urinate, or defecate, helps them expect it. However, we cannot anticipate all reactions or complications.
All of the following contribute to dysthanasia or result from it, except:
Question 152
Marijuana ingestion is commonly associated with all except which of the following symptoms?
Question 153
Which of the following terms is a measurement of the absorbed dose of ionizing radiation absorbed by a body part?
Question 154
As a non-sterile circulating surgery technician, your job is to open packs, suture material, and obtain other necessities during surgery. However, you are also the main surveyor and observer to permit that sterility is maintained. Thus, the non-sterile tech is responsible for minimizing and, ideally, preventing all exogenous contamination.
All of the following would constitute exogenous contamination, except:
Question 155
You are being asked to prep a patient for a gastrotomy. It is a 14-year-old MN DSH with a history of chronic vomiting. A linear foreign body is suspected as mild plication was evident on radiographs. The owners elected to forgo ultrasound to confirm and elected exploratory laparotomy. They gave permission for biopsies of the stomach and other areas as needed. This is the first time the cat has eaten anything he shouldn't, and the surgeon and admitting emergency clinician are highly suspicious of gastric neoplasia or other intestinal neoplasia triggering pica.
All the following neoplastic conditions occur gastrically in dogs and cats, except: