An agonist-antagonist opioid is best defined as which one of the following?

You have a bottle of 10 mg/ml acepromazine and you would like to dilute it out to 1 mg/ml. What volume of 10 mg/ml acepromazine and what volume of sterile water would you need to make 10 mls of 1 mg/ml acepromazine?

The initial recovery from anesthesia, extubation and raising their head, following propofol (and the thiobarbiturates in the past) is mainly due to which one of these mechanisms? 

Noninvasive blood pressure measurement using a doppler flow detector and a sphygmomanometer best estimates which one of the following? 

The 2 factors that determine cardiac output are: (select one answer) 

Nonrebreathing anesthetic delivery systems prevent rebreathing of carbon dioxide by the use of which one of the following? 

 Hypoventilation is defined as which one of the following? 

You have a mature Thoroughbred gelding under anesthesia for a colic surgery. It is under gas anesthesia with isoflurane in oxygen and on a ventilator. An arterial blood gas analysis shows the following values. pH = 7.23, PaCO2 = 37 mmHg, PaO2 = 450 mmHg, Bicarbonate = 10 mmol/L, Base excess = -10 mmol/L. Which statement best describes this horse’s acid base status.

 In certain situations, for instance a horse trapped in a trailer after an auto accident, a less than ideal method of euthanasia may be used to prevent prolonged suffering if more acceptable methods are not available. 

The pharmacokinetics of which one of the following drugs is likely to be most affected by a decrease in liver function?