PAS Animal Health/ Vet TECH

What does the acronym AVMA stand for?

American Veterinary Medical Association.

Plasma from healthy dogs and cats is ____, whereas plasma from horses and cattle is___.

Clear and colorless, clear and light-yellow

What pain is pain originating from internal organs?

Visceral 

What are the three things a vet tech cannot do in the veterinary hospital?

Diagnose disease, prescribe medicine, and perform surgical procedures.

The vet tech is responsible for ___ and ___ the level of patient pain.

Monitoring; accessing

The laws that govern the practice of veterinary medicine and the legal roles of veterinary technicians are outline in the document called the ____.

Practice Act

The signalment of the animal includes which of the following. 

Sex

Which is preferred anticoagulant used to prevent clotting in mammalian blood samples destined for hematologic analysis.

EDTA

What would the Triadan number before the primary lower left canine?

704

The general anesthesia classification system used today was developed by a U.S. Army doctor during WW1 using which inhalant anesthetic.

Diethyl ether

Difficulty breathing due to stenotic(constricted) nares is most commonly seen in which kind of dogs?

Brachycephalic

Yeast organisms often found on microscopic examination of ear wax are ___.

Fungal organisms

What disease can infect personnel who accidentally ingest the urine of an infected dog even if the dog is vaccinated and showing no clinical signs of the disease?

Leptospirosis

The normal rectal temperature of adult horses is approximately:

37 C to 38.5 C (99.0 F to 101.5 F)

A blood sample for a CBC should be collected in a ___ tube.

Purple top

What test is essential for the evaluation of primary renal disease?

Urinalysis

What equine neurologic disease is also known as wobblers?

Compression of the cervical spinal cord by malformed or unstable cervical vertebrae.

How many teeth are there in the normal adult canine dentition?

42

The use of the internet has allowed for collaboration between veterinarians and radiologists through the transmission of electronic images. This activity is called

teleradiology

What is used as an indicator of the average size of RBC’s

Mean corpuscular volume

The basic techniques for positioning dental radiographs are what?

Bisecting angle, lateral, and straight on.

A prescription reads: SIG: 2T PO q4h PRN until gone. The translation of these instructions is:

Instructions: 2 tablets to be taken every 4 hours by mouth as needed until all tablets are gone.

To estimate the hemoglobin concentration in the blood of a canine, simply divide the PCV by ___.

3

Acute laminitis may be due to excess, sudden ingestion of ___, or secondary to other diseases, which occur during the ___ period.

Grain; post parturient

Trocar, sleeve, blunt obturator, triangulation, and light cable are all terms used in:

Arthroscopic surgery

Needle holders are designed for:

Holding curved suture needles

You are nursing “Solitaire” a horse recovering from small intestinal surgery performed yesterday. At 10 PM on Saturday night, you discover Solitaire covered in sweat with evidence of frequent rolling in her stall. Why does a horse like Solitaire, with a buildup of fluid in her stomach, experience such pain?

Horses cannot vomit to relieve the gastric pressure.

Calves dehorned after 6 months of age are at greater risk of developing ___.

Sinusitis

In general, the absorption rate of a drug is slower when the drug is given ___and more rapid when given __.

Subcutaneously, intramuscularly

Corticosteroids may cause:

Immune suppression

Which statement concerning antibiotic therapy is most accurate?

Indiscriminate choice of antibiotics and inadequate doses or treatment lengths can lead to microbial resistance to the antibiotic used.

Which statement is true concerning veterinary use of controlled substances?

A controlled substance is a substance of high abuse potential for which detailed written records of amounts used and amounts on hand are required.

Concerning the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s requirement for Material Safety Data Sheets for the chemicals to which workers are exposed, which statement is most accurate?

Hazardous ingredients, flammability, and explosive- and health hazard data are among the essential parts of an MSDS.

Bacteria are classified as either gram positive or gram negative based on their ability to:

Absorb gentian violet dye into their cell walls.

These topical insecticides, whose natural compound originates from the extract of a flower, are known for their quick “knockdown” of fleas.

Pyrethrins

The absorption from an intramuscular or a subcutaneous injection site is primarily through:

Simple diffusion

This T-shaped, tubular instrument with a cylindrical cutting blade is usually used to remove a core of bone for biopsy.

Trephine

Which of the following are not used to help maintain patient positioning during surgery:

Heating pads

The condition in which air becomes trapped between the body wall and the lung is called:

Pneumothorax

Mannitol and furosemide are both __ that are used to reduce increased intracranial pressure in the patient with head trauma.

Diuretics

A drug that has extreme potential for abuse and no approved medicinal purpose in the United States is classified as ___.

C-1

If using a Doppler blood flow monitor, the systolic should not fall below:

80 mmHg

A 1350-pound horse is to be administered phenylbutazone IV at a dose of 6mg/kg. The vial is labeled 200mg/ml. How many milliliters will be administered?

18 ml

When performing chest compressions on an animal that weighs more than 15 lb, the animal should be placed in ___ recumbency.

Dorsal or lateral

Early signs of increased intracranial pressure include:

Dull mentation

The normal urine production for cats and dogs is:

1 to 2 ml/kg/hr

Having a short exposure time does all of the following except:

Decreases the mA requirement

Radiographic contrast is primarily controlled by:

kVP

According to the Tissue density, which of the following lists the densest to least dense:

Lead, bone, fluids, air

The purpose of a grid is to allow only the __ to pass through, thereby preventing __ from reaching the film.

Primary x-ray beam; scatter radiation