1. Define anesthesia.

2. How do local anesthetics produce anesthesia?

3. What are the basic classes of local anesthetics?

4. List 3 common amides.

5. What is the easiest way to remember if a drug is an amide or an ester?

6. What is the physiologic ph of human tissue?

7. What is considered normal blood pressure?

8. Define hypertension.

9. How is blood pressure measured?

10. What blood borne pathogens are healthcare workers at risk for?

11. How should needles be disposed?

12. If a needle stick occurs what is the first thing the health care worker should do?

13. Why is reporting the exposure essential?

14. What is the average risk of HIV after a needle stick exposure to HIV infected blood?

15. Is there a vaccine against Hepatitis C?

16. Explain post-exposure prophylaxis.

17. What specific drugs are recommended for post exposure treatment for HIV if the patient’s status is unknown?

18. How soon after exposure to a blood borne pathogen should treatment start? HBV? HIV?

19. What are the side effects associated with the antiviral drugs associated with HIV?

20. Can pregnant healthcare workers take the drugs recommended for post exposure?

21. List the 3 basic local anesthetic armamentarium (pg 77)?

22. What is added to these to provide topical anesthesia?

23. Which end of the cartridge is inserted first? Where is it placed?

24. What recapping technique is recommended?

25. Which nerve contains the Ophthalmic, Maxillary and Mandibular Divisions?

26. On pgs. 177 & 180-181 (Malamed, Handbook of Local Anesthesia), locate the trigeminal nerve. Follow the mandibular nerve through the foramen ovale. Now, follow the lingual nerve as it runs anterior and medial to the inferior alveolar nerve.

Observe the medial view of the mandible. What does the lingual nerve innervate?

27. Follow the inferior alveolar nerve as it enters the Mandibular canal. Observe the inferior alveolar nerve as it passes through the mandibular canal. When the inferior alveolar nerve exits the mental foramen, it separates into the incisive nerve and the mental nerve. What does the incisive nerve innervate? What does the mental nerve innervate?

28. On pg. 177, locate the maxillary nerve as it passes through the foramen rotundum. Turn to pg 179 and observe the path of the maxillary nerve as it branches into the posterior superior alveolar nerve, the infraorbital nerve, the greater palatine nerve and the nasopalatine nerve. What does the posterior superior alveolar nerve innervate? What does the greater palatine nerve innervate? What does the nasopalatine nerve innervate?

29. On pg. 179, locate the infraorbital nerve. Follow it as it branches into the middle superior alveolar branch and the anterior superior alveolar branch. What does the middle superior alveolar branch innervate? What does the anterior superior alveolar nerve innervate?

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