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Anesthesia definitions

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Name the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious   Awareness     Robins K et al. Intraoperative Awareness During General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery Anesth Analg, 109:886-890, 2009  
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Name a type of memory in which conscious recall of specific facts and events   Explicit     Robins K et al. Intraoperative Awareness During General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery Anesth Analg, 109:886-890, 2009  
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Name a type of memory in which previous experiences aid without conscious awareness of these previous experiences   Implicit   capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed; Latin implicitus involved, obscure, variant past participle of implicāre   Robins K et al. Intraoperative Awareness During General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery Anesth Analg, 109:886-890, 2009  
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Process whereby exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent(later) stimulus   Priming   Priming is the implicit memory effect   Robins K et al. Intraoperative Awareness During General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery Anesth Analg, 109:886-890, 2009  
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State in which information from surroundings can be processed   Consciousness     Robins K et al. Intraoperative Awareness During General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery Anesth Analg, 109:886-890, 2009  
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Ability to retrieve stored memories   Recall     Robins K et al. Intraoperative Awareness During General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery Anesth Analg, 109:886-890, 2009  
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Absence of recall; a condition in which one's memory is lost   Amnesia   Event not retained in long-term memory   Robins K et al. Intraoperative Awareness During General Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery Anesth Analg, 109:886-890, 2009  
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Pharmacogenetic disorder in which anesthetics trigger a sustained increase in intramyoplasmic Ca2+ that leads to hypermetabolism, muscle rigidity, rhabdomyolysis, and death   Malignant Hyperthermia   (MH) autosomal dominant inheritance   Nelson TE. Malignant hyperthermia: a pharmacogenetic disease of Ca++ regulating proteins. Curr Mol Med 2002;2:347–69  
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Specific treatment for MH   Dantrolene   Dantrolene sodium is the only drug effective for treatment of Malignant hyperthermia   Anesth Analg 2010;111:1400 –10  
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The most common site of mutations in MH   Ryanodine receptor   (RYR1) for the skeletal muscle intracellular Ca2+ release channel. It is not yet feasible to screen the entire population for RYR1 mutations because more than 170 variants, of which 29 are known causative mutations   Robinson R, Carpenter D, Shaw MA, Halsall J, Hopkins P. Mutations in RYR1 in malignant hyperthermia and central core disease. Hum Mutat 2006;27:977–89  
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MH susceptibility conferring in North America by which test?   Caffeine-Halothane Contracture Test   positive live muscle biopsy(CHCT)or in vitro contracture test (IVCT) in Europe    
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A class of inherited skeletal muscle diseases characterized by impaired relaxation after sudden, voluntary muscle contraction   Myotonias   result from skeletal muscle membrane hyperexcitability, inappropriate firing, delay in muscle relaxation, and resultant contracture states of varying severity and duration    
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