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WorksheetsAnesthesia Quiz H2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Use of desflurane or sevoflurane from a modern anaesthetic machine for 1 h is the same as 230 or 30 miles travelled in a modern car respectively.
30 miles
100 miles
Vaporization
of a bottle of desflurane has the same global warming effect as
___________________kg CO2
500 kg
886 kg
1000 kg
The
inhalational anaesthetic agents sevoflurane, isoflurane and desflurane have
global warming potentials _____________ of magnitude higher than CO2.
5-10
orders
2-3
orders
100-200
orders
none of
the above
The
Sustainable Development Unit of the NHS estimates that __________________of
the CO2e fromacute organisations is attributable to anaesthetic agents
5%
11%
30%
In 2014,
the release of hydrofluorocarbon and chlorofluorocarbon anaesthetic gases
stood at the equivalent of 3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide
TRUE
FALSE
Desflurane
has a 10-year ‘‘lifetime’’ in the atmosphere, compared with 3.6 years for
isoflurane and 1.2 years for sevoflurane
FALSE
TRUE
Published
atmospheric lifetimes range between _________&__________ years for
sevoflurane and desflurane
3 &10
1.4 & 21.4
1.7 & 32
None of the above
Desflurane has
about ____________ times the global warming potential of sevoflurane and 13
times the potential of isoflurane
100
26
Refilling
the anesthesia machine’s vaporizer, spillage of the liquid inhalational
anesthetic contaminates the workplace
TRUE
FALSE
Increasing maintenance flows of anesthetic gases to
4-6 L/min rather than 1-2 L/min can also minimize environmental pollution.
FALSE
TRUE
